124 Cal. App. 345 - Burckhardt v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1972
8 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 Mox Incorporated v. Woods · Revert v. Hesse · Bowman v. Wohlke · Hamilton v. Smith · Herron v. Hughes
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this court is unable to discover any such defect therein as should result in a declaration that the complaint fails to state a cause of action ... it would appear that in all essential particulars the complaint substantially conforms to the legal requirements in an action for damages alleged to arise from the fraudulent acts of the defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is the civil wrong resulting in damage, and not the conspiracy, which constitutes the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“neither sets up according to its legal effect, nor in haec verba the terms of the agreement. ...”
1 later decision 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.