Watkins v. Nutting’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 690 - Cross v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (1964), Hamasaki v. Flotho (1952)
3 federal appellate · 83 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 Douglas v. Southern Pacific Co. · Hatzakorzian v. Rucker-Fuller Desk Co. · 103 Cal. App. 531 - White v. Davis · Salmon v. Rathjens · Robinson v. Western States Gas & Electric 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A notice of intention to move for a new trial upon one or more of the grounds specified in the Code of Civil Procedure is essential * to the court's jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he statutory cause of action for wrongful death (sec. 377, Code Civ. Proc.) ... is a joint one, a single one and an indivisible one”
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.