Doran v. Dreyer’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 125 Cal. App. 3d 623 - Nelson v. Gaunt (1981), 202 Cal. App. 4th 522 - Stebley v. Litton Loan Servicing, LLP (2011)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · Overton v. Vita-Food Corp. · Silvers v. Grossman · Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank v. Alden · 124 Cal. App. 2d 487 - Pete v. Henderson
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.
“[a] lay person,... who exercises the privilege of trying his own case must expect and receive the same treatment as if represented by an attorneyno different, no better, no worse.”
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.