Bertoli v. Hardisty’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 1962
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Westberg v. Willde · Mar Shee v. Maryland Assurance Corp. · 20 Cal. 2d 585 - Speck v. Sarver · Gigliotti v. Nunes · 101 Cal. App. 2d 548 - Ford v. CHESLEY TRANSPORTATION CO. INC.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The considerations pointing to negligence would have to overcome not only those pointing to a contrary conclusion, but also the presumption that defendant was not negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it could well be that the jury, relying upon the presumption, determined that respondent was not negligent.”
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.