21 Cal. 2d 437 - Everts v. Matteson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 41 Cal. 2d 193 - Brown v. Jensen (1953), 69 Cal. 2d 275 - United States Leasing Corp. v. duPont (1968)
6 federal appellate · 59 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 Hatch v. Security-First National Bank · Herd v. Tuohy · Martin v. Becker · Sather Banking Co. v. Arthur R. Briggs Co. · Braun v. Crew
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to require the guarantor to pay a larger amount would seem to violate the statutory mandate that his obligation must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has no application to an action based upon the independent obligation of a guarantor.”
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.