178 Cal. App. 3d 653 - Taylor v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 233 Cal. App. 3d 1505 - Saldana v. Globe-Weis Systems Co. (1991), 50 Cal. App. 4th 548 - Lebas Fashion Imports of USA, Inc. v. ITT Hartford Insurance Group (1996)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 15 Cal. 3d 866 - Chern v. Bank of America · 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens · 7 Cal. App. 3d 491 - Larsen v. Johannes · 76 Cal. App. 3d 567 - Gray v. Reeves
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... However, a motion for summary judgment is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, so that absent a clear showing of abuse, the judgment will not be disturbed on appeal. [Citation.]' ( Hoffman v. Citadel General Assurance, Ltd., supra, 194 Cal. App.3d 1356, 1362 [ 240 Cal. Rptr. 253 ]; see also Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. Fibreboard Corp., supra, 182 Cal. App.3d 462 at p. 466 [ 227 Cal. Rptr. 203 ]; Taylor v. Fields (1986) 178 Cal. App.3d 653, 660 [ 224 Cal. Rptr. 186 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because the determination of the trial court is one of law based upon the papers submitted, the appellate court must make its own independent determination of their construction and effect. [Citation.] However, a motion for summary judgment is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, so that absent a clear showing of abuse, the judgment will not be disturbed on appeal. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the court shall consider ... all inferences reasonably deducible from the evidence, except summary judgment shall not be granted by the court based on inferences reasonably deducible from the evidence, if contradicted by other inferences or evidence, which raise a triable issue as to any material fact.”
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.