Bisno v. Sax’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 536 - Eye Dog Foundation v. State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind (1967), 1 Cal. 4th 976 - Lusardi Construction Co. v. Aubry (1992)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 62 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 37 Cal. 2d 16 - Freedman v. Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Matthias Parish · 41 Cal. 2d 193 - Brown v. Jensen · Graf v. Hope Building Corp. · Times-Mirror Co. v. Superior Court · City of Los Angeles v. Abbott
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equity does not wait upon precedent which exactly squares with the facts in controversy, but will assert itself in those situations where right and justice would be defeated but for its intervention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`no inflexible rule has been permitted to circumscribe the power of equity to do justice'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.