17 Cal. App. 353 - Harvey v. Meigs’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2006
4 federal appellate · 13 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 Wickersham v. Crittenden · Schaake v. Eagle Automatic Can Co. · Beattie Manufacturing Co. v. Gerardi
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Faults consisting in ambiguities and uncertainties should be viewed, to a certain extent, in the light of the situation of the parties as to their knowledge of the facts; that is, as to facts of which the plaintiff cannot, from their nature, have as full information as the defendant. Less certainty is required in the allegations of the complaint, partly because a desirable degree of certainty may be impossible, and partly because the facts being known to the defendant he is not likely to be embarrassed or injured.” The case here is one where the defendants practically constituted the managing body of the corporation, and must have had full knowledge of all the facts which they insist that plaintiffs must have alleged, though in no position to know or ascertain them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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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.