Vick v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2017
16 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 Norwood v. Judd · Howard v. Adams · Estate of Green · Duntley v. Kagarise · 47 Cal. App. 2d 82 - Alfonso Sales v. Bacigalupi
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... courts are reluctant to declare a contract void as against public policy, and will refuse to do so if by any reasonable construction it may be upheld. ( Vick v. Patterson [(1958)] 158 Cal. App.2d 414, 417 [ 322 P.2d 548 ].)”
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.