Campbell v. Birch’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 12 Cal. 4th 631 - Lazar v. Superior Court (1996), Estate of Hanley v. Hanley (1943)
34 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 Revert v. Hesse · Johnstone v. Morris · Taylor v. Hopper · Westerfeld v. New York Life Insurance · 42 Cal. App. 133 - McEwen v. New York Life Insurance
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, of course, the trial court was not required to believe their testimony. The trial court is the exclusive judge of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses. It is its province to give to the evidence that weight to which, in its judgment, it is entitled, and to draw all reasonable inferences therefrom, and if, in its judgment, the evidence is entitled to no weight it may disregard such evidence altogether. (24 Cal.Jur. 886, sec. 135.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... first that the trial court could have disbelieved defendants' evidence on the subject; and second that an inference ... arose ... With the first I agree, but ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.