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1970

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
3
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 95 Wash. 2d 699 - In Re the Marriage of Gimlett (1981), Ahuna v. Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (1982)

37 state decisions

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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 232 Cal. App. 2d 56 - Colvig v. RKO General, Inc. · Ormachea v. Ormachea · 125 Cal. App. 2d 636 - Lowenthal v. Mortimer · Fogel Refrigerator Co. v. Oteri · 45 Wash. 2d 346 - Riblet v. Spokane-Portland Cement 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t is not to be assumed that a court intended to enter a judgment with contradictory provisions and thus impair the legal operation and effect of so formal a document.”
    2 later decisions 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.