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← 2 CALAPP5TH 984 - Schellinger Brothers v. Cotter

Schellinger Brothers v. Cotter’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 3 Cal. 3d 875 - Foreman & Clark Corp. v. Fallon · 15 Cal. 3d 590 - Cornelison v. Kornbluth · 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh · Buxbom v. Smith · Brown v. Superior Court

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “As the [California] Supreme Court has observed, the rule against changing the theory on which a case was tried 'is to be stringently applied when the new theory depends on controverted factual questions whose relevance thereto was not made to appear at trial.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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