131 Cal. App. 148 - Roy v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1966
6 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 People v. Oakland Water Front Co. · Coughlin v. Great Western Power Co.
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 true that courts may take judicial knowledge of scientific facts which are commonly recognized. [Citation.] Under proper circumstances judicial knowledge of recognized laws of nature or science may require a court to disregard the allegations of a pleading which are in direct conflict therewith. [Citations.] Upon the contrary, it is equally true that courts will not take judicial notice of facts which are not matters of common or general knowledge. They do not necessarily take judicial notice of facts which may be ascertained by reference to dictionaries, encyclopedias or scientific publications. [Citation.] Even though the laws of nature or science are so well known that they become matters of judicial knowledge, their application to the facts of a particular case may still remain a valid matter of controversy. The effect of such natural laws, however, should be clear and unescapable before a court will be justified in ignoring specific allegations of a pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Brotherton“It is true that courts may take judicial knowledge of scientific facts which are commonly recognized ... Upon the contrary, it is equally true that courts will not take judicial notice of facts which are not matters of common or general knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Courts may take judicial knowledge of scientific facts which are commonly recognized.”
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.