Varcoe v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 695 - Daar v. Yellow Cab Co. (1967), 56 Cal. 2d 864 - People v. Torres (1961)
7 federal appellate · 134 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Bond v. United R.R. of S.F. · Josias Pennington v. Lyman Gibson · State v. Ruth · Campbell v. Wood · Evans v. State
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“; that is, well established and authoritatively settled, not doubtful or uncertain. In every instance the test is whether sufficient notoriety attaches to the fact involved as to make it safe and proper to assume its existence without proof. In harmony with that view it has been said that courts must”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frazier v. State“Little assistance can be had by a search of the authorities for exactly similar cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frazier v. State“any matter of which the court of original jurisdiction may properly take notice.”
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.