137 Cal. App. 2d 21 - Murphy v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably 200 Cal. App. 2d 741 - Snider v. Snider (1962), 166 Cal. App. 2d 353 - Southern Pacific Co. v. Fish (1958)
53 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 Coyne v. Krempels · 129 Cal. App. 2d 558 - Cone v. Union Oil Co. · 23 Cal. 2d 840 - Valencia v. Shell Oil Co. · Kimber v. Jones · Gardenswartz v. Equitable Etc. Soc.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The affidavit ... in support of the motion must contain facts sufficient to entitle ... defendant to a judgment ... and the facts stated therein shall be within the personal knowledge of the affiant and shall be set forth with particularity, and each affidavit shall show affirmatively that affiant, if sworn as a witness, can testify competently thereto”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the facts hereinafter set forth ... are within the personal knowledge of the affiant”
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.