Abrams v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 1188 - Evangelatos v. Superior Court (1988), 19 Cal. App. 3d 581 - Coast Bank v. Holmes (1971)
25 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 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · United States v. National City Lines, Inc. · People v. Scott · 71 Cal. App. 2d 687 - Vaccarezza v. Sanguinetti · Dierman v. Providence Hospital
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the construction of remedial statutes ... regard must always be had for the evident purpose for which the statute was enacted, and if the reason of the statute extends to past transactions, as well as to those in the future, then it will be so applied....”
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.