15 Cal. App. 2d 322 - Smethurst v. Smethurst’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 1965
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Improvement Company v. Munson · Pleasants v. Fant · Estate of Caspar · Wilson v. McConnachie · Estate of Morey v. Wells
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a directed verdict may be granted 'only when, disregarding conflicting evidence and giving to plaintiff's evidence all the value to which it is legally entitled, herein indulging in every legitimate inference which may be drawn from that evidence, the result is a determination that there is no evidence of sufficient substantiality to support a verdict in favor of the plaintiff if such a verdict were given.' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Beckley“To warrant a court in directing a verdict, it is not necessary that there should be an absence of conflict in the evidence, but, to deprive the court of the right to exercise this power, if there be a conflict, it must be a substantial one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Beckley
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.