Monk v. Ehret’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 579 - Cervantez v. J. C. Penney Co. (1979), 16 Cal. 2d 655 - People v. Agnew (1940)
52 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 Fong v. Sternes · Davis v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Kahn v. Wilson · Nelson v. Kellogg · Warner v. Warner
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are satisfied that the complaint states a cause of action for false imprisonment. It is not necessary to allege that the imprisonment was unlawful.””
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.