151 Cal. App. 3d 303 - Baright v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 606 - International Engine Parts, Inc. v. Feddersen & Co. (1995), 37 Cal. App. 4th 1318 - San Francisco Unified School District v. W.R. Grace & Company-Connecticut (1995)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · 18 Cal. 3d 93 - Sanchez v. South Hoover Hospital · Youngman v. Nevada Irrigation District · 12 Cal. 3d 915 - Glaire v. La Lanne-Paris Health Spa, Inc. · 32 Cal. 3d 426 - Brown v. Bleiberg
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question of when there has been a belated discovery of the cause of action, especially in malpractice cases, is essentially a question of fact ... [and] [i]t is only where reasonable minds can draw but one conclusion from the evidence that the question becomes a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“their agreement [had] encompassed not only plaintiff's workers' compensation claim, but also any third-party lawsuits plaintiff may have had against nonemployer parties responsible for his injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hiligh v. Sands“where the complaint merely shows that the action may have been barred. It must appear affirmatively that, upon the facts stated, the right of action is necessarily barred.”
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.