164 Cal. App. 2d 350 - Shell v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 66 Cal. App. 3d 101 - Glendale Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Marina View Heights Development Co. (1977), H.L.C. & Associates Construction Co. v. United States (1966)
35 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 126 Cal. App. 2d 279 - Shell v. Schmidt · Thomas Haverty Co. v. Jones · Perry v. Quackenbush · HP Droher & Sons v. Toushin · Seely v. Alden
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he burden is on the defendant to affirmatively and convincingly prove that economic waste would result from the replacement of the omissions and defects [because] it is the defendant who is seeking to prove a situation whereby he will get equitable relief from a rule of law.”
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.