126 Cal. App. 367 - Schroeder v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1998
13 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 Pacific Wharf & Storage Co. v. Standard American Dredging Co. · Estate of Wood · 93 Cal. App. 411 - Lane Mortgage Co. v. Crenshaw · Blakeslee v. Wilson · Jackson v. Puget Sound Lumber 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A consideration of the entire contract forces the irresistible conclusion that, as contended by plaintiff, the intention of the parties was that plaintiff should perform the necessary services as a patent attorney and act as defendant's agent and counselor in looking after her patent and trade-mark matters generally, employing counsel if and when necessary.”
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.