178 Cal. App. 2d 574 - Gary v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1985
12 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 Webber v. Webber · Weil v. Weil · Rosenfield v. Vosper · Pratt v. Pratt · Bell v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each of the cited cases in which trial judges have been found guilty of misconduct [citation] has differed substantially from the others; none of them can be a controlling precedent in a new situation in which new fact questions are presented. Differences in the nature of the litigation, the particular comments or conduct of the trial judge, the scope and reliability of affidavits by parties and attorneys, and the state of the evidence at the trial make it essential that each case turn upon its own facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an expression of the conclusions of the trial judge up to the moment, in order that counsel may be advised what course to chart.”
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.