129 Cal. App. 2d 313 - Elias v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1983
10 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 Nelson v. Abraham · 115 Cal. App. 238 - San Francisco Iron & Metal Co. v. American Milling & Industrial Co. · 42 Cal. App. 81 - Menefee v. Oxnam
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under ordinary circumstances one joint adventurer may not sue his associate for the return of money contributed to the joint venture except by action for dissolution and an accounting. It is unnecessary to consider whether the facts of the present case bring it within an exception to the general rule. The point was not made in the court below and it is not urged on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burge v. Michael
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.