Mitchell v. Barendregt’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2021
1 district · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 39 Cal. 3d 18 - Tenzer v. Superscope, Inc. · Cheney v. Palos Verdes Investment Corp. · Stephens v. Stearns · Mann v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · Southwest Engineering Co., Inc. v. Martin Tractor Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[MJembers of the same family, partners, attorney and client, executor and beneficiary of an estate, principal and agent, insurer and insured, or close friends. All the evidence presented in this case shows that Mitchell and Barendregt shared none of these relationships, but were parties who entered into an agreement at arms [sic] length.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.