128 Cal. App. 2d 480 - Kahn v. Lischner’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 25 Cal. App. 3d 987 - Windsor Mills, Inc. v. Collins & Aikman Corp. (1972), 184 Cal. App. 2d 724 - Reynolds v. Natural Gas Equipment, Inc. (1960)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 Seeger v. Odell · People v. La MacChia · 123 Cal. App. 2d 300 - Lawrence Block Co. v. Palston · 32 Cal. 2d 176 - Kircher v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Sargent v. Shumaker
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the conduct of the plaintiff in the light of his own intelligence and information was manifestly unreasonable,... he will be denied a recovery.”
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.