Beckman v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 1 - Beeler v. American Trust Co. (1944), Badover v. Guaranty Trust Etc. Bank (1921)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Wadleigh v. Phelps · Couts v. Winston · Henley v. Hotaling · Ahern v. McCarthy
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also claimed that the court erred in denying the motion for a continuance on the ground of the absence of the plaintiff. The court did not abuse its discretion in this ruling. The affidavits offered to support the motion showed, at most, that the plaintiff was unable to be present at the time set for the trial. But there was nothing to indicate that he would be able to appear at any later time, nor was there any sufficient showing of an excuse for the failure to take his deposition in proper form before the trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forney v. Brodie
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.