Lichtenauer v. Dorstewitz’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As stated in Colla v. Carmichael U-Drive Autos, Inc., 111 Cal.App.Supp. 784 [ 294 P. 378 ], at page 788: ‘In the complaint filed, each “case” or cause of action preserved its identity and each plaintiff prayed for and obtained a segregated award based on the damages individually proved. The code section [Code Civ. Proc., § 378] contemplates of course an action single in form, but with each “case” or demand retaining its distinctive identity as though pleaded in an independent action. No plaintiff is interested in the entire complaint. The interest of each is in his own “case" or cause of action; and the complaint as a whole is merely a series of ‘ ‘ cases ’ ’ embodied in one document. “ ‘The institution of a joint action thus amounts to an election to consolidate at the outset several causes of action for trial instead of bringing several actions based on common grounds, and then having them consolidated later.’ (See also 1 Chadbourn, Grossman & Van Alstyne, California Pleading, § 183.) “Since each cause of action retained its distinctive identity and each plaintiff recovered on his or her separate demand, the matter of the right to costs had to be determined with respect to each award separately and not in the light of the aggregate amount awarded to both plaintiffs. (Cf. Fields v. Napa Milling Co., 164 Cal.App.2d 442, 450 [ 330 P.2d 459 , 68 A.L.R.2d 1052 ].)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Downey v. Gonzales