Batchelor v. Finn’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2011
11 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 51 Cal. 2d 777 - People v. Mattson · Parsons v. Weis · Brownell v. Superior Court of Yolo Cty. · 33 Cal. 2d 649 - Lacey v. Bertone · Zobel v. Zobel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘This case exemplifies the observation made by the court in Monastero v. Los Angeles Transit Co., 131 Cal.App.2d 156, 162 , 280 P.2d 187 , 192: “Experience in trial of cases indicates that all too often litigants who appear in propria persona deliberately attempt to capitalize upon their own ignorance or appearance of ignorance.” ’ ” 341 P.2d 813 , note 3.”
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.