Moseley v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 37 Cal. App. 4th 1397 - Marshall v. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (1995), 153 Cal. App. 4th 1308 - E-Fab, Inc. v. Accountants, Inc. Services (2007)
32 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 13 Cal. 3d 622 - Rossmoor Sanitation, Inc. v. Pylon, Inc. · Austin v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance · 21 Cal. 3d 497 - E. L. White, Inc. v. City of Huntington Beach · 21 Cal. 3d 624 - Regents of University of California v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Kriegler v. Eichler Homes, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ascertaining legislative intent so as to effectuate the purpose of the law, we turn first to the words of the statute, reading the language according to its ordinary and usual import, lending significance to every part where possible, avoiding surplusage, reading the language in context and harmonizing all parts. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The ultimate question for review is whether the complaint showed on its face that the action was barred by a statute of limitations, for only then may a general demurrer be sustained and a judgment of dismissal be entered thereon.”
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.