Marshall v. Parkes’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably 175 Cal. App. 3d 1 - California Shoppers, Inc. v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. (1985), Kuhn v. Department of General Services (1994)
30 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 20 Cal. 2d 457 - Blank v. Coffin · Panopulos v. Maderis · Gibson Properties Co. v. City of Oakland · Estate of Tarrant · Dull v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To support a finding, ‘the inference or inferences indulged in must be reasonable, must be based on the evidence, cannot be the result of mere guess, surmise or conjecture’ [citations], or ‘be based on imagination, speculation or supposition.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hether a particular inference can be drawn from certain evidence is a question of law for determination by the court, but whether the inference shall be drawn, in a given case, is a question of fact for determination by the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... where the uncontradicted evidence `establishes the impropriety of the inferences drawn by the [jury] from the uncontroverted facts' a finding based thereon is not supported by the evidence.”
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.