180 Cal. App. 2d 211 - Stout v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2006
16 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · 19 Cal. 2d 807 - Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association · Russell v. Place · 15 Cal. 2d 195 - Sutphin v. Speik · Todhunter v. Smith
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judgment based on a general verdict, in an action wherein a determination of any one of several issues may have been the basis for that verdict, does not authorize the application of the doctrine of estoppel by judgment to such issues in a subsequent action under circumstances where ... it is necessary to identify the specific issue determined in the former action[.]”
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.