Crocker v. Conrey’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably 19 Cal. 3d 970 - Bailey v. Superior Court (1977), McClatchy Newspapers v. Superior Court (1945)
35 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 Merced Mining Co. v. Fremont · Temple v. Superior Court · Heinlen v. Cross · Lezinsky v. Superior Court · Ortman v. Dixon
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He is not, like the notary in such case, a mere ministerial functionary, endowed with no power except to write down what a witness consents to say; he is the judge of the court in which the cause is awaiting trial, and he is engaged in the performance of the legitimate judicial duty of securing to a party the means of producing at the trial the evidence necessary to sustain his action or defense. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“power or jurisdiction to compel the defendant to answer”
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.