Walling v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 54 Cal. 2d 632 - Fifield Manor v. Finston (1960), 37 Cal. 4th 428 - People v. Partida (2005)
159 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 Lafargue v. United Railroad of San Francisco · 104 Cal. App. 621 - Aydlott v. Key System Transit Co. · Keena v. United Railroads of San Francisco · Merralls v. Southern Pacific Co. · 130 Cal. App. 316 - Gackstetter v. Market Street Railway Co.
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well established rule in this state that ‘an appellate court will never indulge in presumptions to defeat a judgment. It will never presume that an error was committed, or that something was done or omitted to be done which constitutes error. On the contrary, every intendment and presumption not contradicted by or inconsistent with the record on appeal must be indulged in favor of the orders and judgments of superior courts. ’ ””
2 later decisions 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.