139 Cal. App. 2d 394 - Powell v. Bartmess’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably 271 Cal. App. 2d 219 - Slayton v. Wright (1969), 151 Cal. App. 2d 133 - MacLean v. City & County of San Francisco (1957)
36 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 37 Cal. 2d 116 - Parker v. Womack · 91 Cal. App. 2d 142 - Huetter v. Andrews · 136 Cal. App. 2d 415 - Kalfus v. Fraze · Fischer v. Keen · Donat v. Dillon
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prejudicial error will never be presumed, and the burden is upon the appellant to show that it exists, There is no such showing here. Whatever may have been the interpretation put upon section 475 of the Code of Civil Procedure prior to the adoption of section 4% of article VI of the Constitution, it is settled that injury is no longer presumed from error, but must be affirmatively shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it unduly emphasizes one portion of the evidence, puts the court in the position of making an argument to the jury, and misleads the jury into thinking that because the court has specifically mentioned certain testimonial facts they are of undue importance or that the court believed them to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Shishido““ ‘No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Westcott v. Hamilton
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.