17 Cal. App. 4th 33 - Shaffer v. Debbas’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 31 Cal. 4th 1026 - State Department of Health Services v. Superior Court (2003), 46 Cal. App. 4th 1559 - Thrifty-Tel, Inc. v. Bezenek (1996)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 2 Cal. 3d 1 - Helfend v. Southern California Rapid Transit District · 4 Cal. 3d 725 - Hrnjak v. Graymar, Inc. · 54 Cal. 3d 476 - Weiner v. Fleischman · 115 Cal. App. 2d 684 - Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of mitigation of damages holds that `[a] plaintiff who suffers damage as a result of either a breach of contract or a tort has a duty to take reasonable steps to mitigate those damages and will not be able to recover for any losses which could have been thus avoided.' [Citations.] A plaintiff may not recover for damages avoidable through ordinary care and reasonable exertion. [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“comparative negligence is not a defense to a breach of express warranty action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not necessary that the defendant acted in bad faith or intended to mislead the plaintiff. [Citations.] It is sufficient that the defendant's conduct in fact induced the plaintiff to refrain from instituting legal proceedings.”
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.