13 Cal. 2d 271 - MacPherson v. MacPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 27 Cal. 3d 645 - Moffat v. Moffat (1980), Hull v. Superior Court (1960)
77 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 Weeks v. Superior Court · O'Neill v. Thomas Day Co. · Knoob v. Knoob · 63 Cal. App. 492 - Soderberg v. Soderberg · 107 Cal. App. 488 - Funfar v. Superior Court
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party to an action cannot, with right or reason, ask the aid and assistance of a court in hearing his demands while he stands in an attitude of contempt to legal orders and processes of the courts of this state. [Citations.]”
9 later decisions 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.