Langford v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 68 Cal. 2d 662 - Batson v. Strehlow (1968), 28 Cal. 2d 214 - Rattray v. Scudder (1946)
45 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 Calmon v. Sarraille · King v. Wise · Sterling v. Smith · Burke v. Bours · Rubidoex v. Parks
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of California imposed on ... the real estate agent the same obligation of undivided service and loyalty that it imposes on a trustee in favor of his beneficiary. Violation of his trust is subject to the same punitory consequences that are provided for a disloyal or recreant trustee. (King v. Wise, 43 Cal. 628 .)”
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.