21 Cal. 2d 176 - Roy v. Salisbury’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently February 1969 · most notably 45 Cal. 2d 474 - California Lettuce Growers, Inc. v. Union Sugar Co. (1955), Wong v. Di Grazia (1963)
2 federal appellate · 88 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 13 Cal. 2d 158 - Long Beach Drug Co. v. United Drug Co. · Perkins v. Sunset Tel. and Tel. Co. · Evans v. Gibson · Hollywood Motion Picture Equipment Co. v. Furer · McIllmoil v. Frawley Motor Co.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases of uncertainty not removed by the preceding rules, the language of a contract should be interpreted most strongly against the party who caused the uncertainty to exist. The promisor is presumed to be such party; except in a con tract between a public officer or body, as such, and a private party, in which it is presumed that all uncertainty was caused by the private party. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“( C “3. Parties or assignors of parties to an action or proceeding, or persons in whose behalf an action or proceeding is prosecuted, against an executor or administrator upon a claim, or demand against the estate of a deceased person, as to any matter or fact occurring before the death of such deceased person. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the law does not favor but leans against the destruction of contracts because of uncertainty; and it will, if feasible, so construe agreements as to carry into effect the reasonable intentions of the parties if that can be ascertained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wong v. Di Grazia
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.