162 Cal. App. 4th 249 - Wagner v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 24 Cal. 4th 1122 - Ketchum v. Moses · 9 Cal. 4th 263 - Lennane v. Franchise Tax Board · 32 Cal. 3d 892 - Carroll v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. · 24 Cal. 4th 301 - Collection Bureau of San Jose v. Rumsey · 28 Cal. 4th 249 - Zamora v. Clayborn Contracting Group, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a person against whom an action may be brought on a liability of the person, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, and whether accrued or not accrued, dies before the expiration of the applicable limitations period, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced within one year after the date of death, and the limitations period that would have been applicable does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[a] court construing a statute is not authorized to insert qualifying provisions or exceptions not included by the Legislature or to rewrite the statute to conform to some assumed intention that does not appear from its language'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As the party challenging a discretionary ruling, [defendants] had an affirmative obligation to provide an adequate record so that we could assess whether the court abused its discretion.”
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.