Spellis v. Lawn’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2011
4 federal appellate · 14 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 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · 31 Cal. 3d 318 - Carman v. Alvord · 81 Cal. App. 3d 292 - Saliter v. Pierce Brothers Mortuaries · 105 Cal. App. 3d 316 - Martinez-Ferrer v. Richardson-Merrell, 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here an injury, although slight, is sustained in consequence of the wrongful act of another, and the law affords a remedy therefor, the statute of limitations attaches at once. It is not material that all the damages resulting from the act shall have been sustained at that time, and the running of the statute is not postponed by the fact that the actual or substantial damages do not occur until a later date.”
3 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.