Scott v. Staggs’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
December 1984
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bennett v. Potter · Ochoa v. McCush · Capuccio v. Caire · In Re Estate of Benvenuto · 101 Cal. App. 195 - Deacon v. Deacon
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear that where the plaintiff compels an accounting he is not in a position to complain of the results thereof where it is arrived at lawfully. (Vierra v. Fontes, 135 Cal. 126 [ 66 P. 241 ].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapin v. Gritton
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.