Spaulding v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 371 Pa. Super. 399 - Houston v. Texaco, Inc. (1988), Bullard v. State (1977)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 38 Cal. 2d 265 - Spaulding v. Cameron · Herzog v. Grosso · 13 Cal. 2d 60 - Pacific Western Oil Co. v. Bern Oil Co. · 105 Cal. App. 2d 382 - Guttinger v. Calaveras Cement Co. · Bourdieu v. Seaboard Oil Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the trial court on motion for a new trial had discovered its error and had granted a limited retrial . . . or if after the evidence was closed the trial had been re-opened for evidence ... it could scarcely have been contended by the defendant that in the further proceedings he was not bound by his waiver of a jury. We see no substantial difference between the proceedings that were had pursuant to the mandate of the Supreme Court and proceedings that would have been had if the trial court of its own volition had re-opened the case or had vacated its findings and judgment in part ....”
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.