125 Cal. App. 2d 803 - Owens v. Traverso’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably 68 Cal. 2d 822 - Reichert v. General Insurance of America (1968), Terry v. Bender (1956)
44 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 40 Cal. 2d 317 - Faulkner v. California Toll Bridge Authority · 103 Cal. App. 2d 697 - Lee v. Hensley · 23 Cal. App. 2d 690 - Hays v. Temple · 97 Cal. App. 2d 407 - Slavin v. City of Glendale · Darsie v. Darsie
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . It is undoubtedly a general rule of law that an amended pleading takes the place of the original, and that thereafter the superseded complaint performs no function as a pleading. (Darsie v. Darsie, 49 Cal.App.2d 491, 493 [ 122 P.2d 64 ] ; Puchta v. Rothman, 99 Cal.App.2d 285, 291 [ 221 P.2d 744 ] ; Viera v. Viera, 107 Cal.App.2d 179, 180 [ 236 P.2d 630 ]; O’Brien v. O’Brien, 50 Cal.App.2d 658, 661 [ 123 P.2d 877 ].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferl v. Ferl“`a pleader cannot cure a defect in a verified complaint by simply, without legal explanation, omitting such allegations from subsequently filed pleadings. In such a case the original defect infects the subsequent pleading so as to render it vulnerable to a demurrer....'”
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.