Klein v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2025
18 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 127 Cal. App. 2d 511 - Guerra v. Balestrieri · Larson v. Meyer · Gleson v. Thompson · Gravseth v. Farmers Union Oil Company of Minot · Thornburg v. Perleberg
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for a new trial on the ground that damages are excessive and appear to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice is addressed to the sound judicial discretion of the trial court and the appellate court will not reverse the trial court’s order on that ground unless an abuse of discretion is clearly shown.””
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.