Moyal v. Lanphear’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 16 Cal. 4th 469 - Garcia v. McCutchen (1997), 10 Cal. App. 4th 612 - Unilogic, Inc. v. Burroughs Corp. (1992)
81 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 2 Cal. 3d 557 - Denham v. Superior Court · 31 Cal. 3d 637 - In Re Marriage of Flaherty · 38 Cal. 3d 18 - Mann v. Cracchiolo · 44 Cal. 3d 474 - Shamblin v. Brattain · 190 Cal. App. 3d 844 - Seeley v. Seymour
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`We review the imposition of monetary sanctions [under Code of Civil Procedure section 177.5] for a prejudicial abuse of discretion. [Citation.] Where a trial court has discretion to decide an issue, it will be reversed on appeal only where it clearly appears that a prejudicial abuse of discretion has occurred. [Citation.]'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“confirms the intent of the Legislature that a dismissal sanction should be imposed only if it appears less severe sanctions would not be effective, taking into account the effect of previous sanctions or previous lack of compliance with court orders or deadlines in the case. This legislative approach is consistent with long-standing judicial policy, also adopted by Government Code section 68601(c), that cases should be resolved on their merits rather than on procedural grounds wherever possible. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since trial management is a discretionary area, the proper standard of review for a challenge to trial management orders is abuse of discretion.”
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.