20 Cal. 3d 1 - Post Bros. Construction Co. v. Yoder’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 469 So. 2d 68 - Edwards v. State (1985), Sandpiper North Apartments, Ltd. v. American National Bank & Trust Co. of Shawnee (1984)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 158 Cal. App. 2d 107 - Westwood Building Materials Co. v. Valdez · 56 Cal. 2d 789 - J. S. Schirm Co. v. Rollingwood Homes Co. · Fraters Glass & Paint Co v. Sw. Construction Co. · 219 Cal. App. 2d 134 - Re-Bar Contractors, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles · 263 Cal. App. 2d 116 - Rodeffer Industries, Inc. v. Chambers Estates, Inc.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The materialman may protect himself by simply refusing to endorse the check until assured by escrow or other arrangement that he will recover his rightful share of the check. Because the materialman is positioned to demand immediate payment in exchange for his endorsement, the custom and use of joint checks is beneficial to materialmen.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a subcontractor and his materialman are joint payees, and no agreement exists with the owner or general contractor as to allocation of proceeds, the materialman by endorsing the check will be deemed to have received the money due him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]nclusion of the materialman as payee makes clear that the maker of the check intends to discharge obligations owed the materialman.”
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.