Bellm v. Bellia’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2019
22 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 113 Cal. App. 3d 892 - Davis v. Thayer · Turner v. Allen · 106 Cal. App. 3d 457 - Nicholson v. Rose · 39 Cal. App. 382 - Andrews v. Jacoby · 11 Cal. App. 3d 613 - Pearson v. Continental Airlines
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only allegations that [the client] made regarding the effect of these factors, however, were that his parents' illnesses and deaths `were very trying to me' and that business pressures `caused me to forget about being served with [the] complaint.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as a matier of professional courtesy counsel should have given notice of the impending default”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Lange“we decry this lack of professional courtesy”
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.