18 Cal. 3d 110 - Lee v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably S. Utsunomiya Enterprises, Inc. v. Moomuku Country Club (1994), 91 Cal. App. 3d 517 - Selby Constructors v. McCarthy (1979)
52 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 41 Cal. 2d 202 - Gudelj v. Gudelj · 69 Cal. 2d 461 - Templeton Feed & Grain v. Ralston Purina Co. · 54 Cal. App. 3d 331 - Miller v. National American Life Insurance · Wisniewski v. Clary · 11 Cal. App. 3d 755 - Schoenfeld v. Norberg
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is a well established policy that, since the right of appeal is remedial in character, our law favors hearings on the merits when such can be accomplished without doing violence to applicable rules. Accordingly in doubtful cases the right to appeal should be granted.' [Citations.]”
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.