Nicholls v. Anders’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1961
16 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 Bailey v. Taaffe · Waite v. Southern Pacific Co. · Jergins v. Schenck · Madison v. Octave Oil Co. · 131 Cal. App. 317 - Minehan v. Silveria
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any doubt that may exist should be resolved in favor of the application [to vacate the judgment], to the end of securing a trial upon the merits.”
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.