Wells v. Lloyd’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably People v. Dail (1943), 21 Cal. 3d 869 - Lemons v. Regents of University of California (1978)
101 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 10 Cal. 2d 160 - Penziner v. West American Finance Co. · Douglas v. Southern Pacific Co. · Tally v. Ganahl · Pierce v. United Gas and Electric Co. · Starr v. Los Angeles Railway Corp.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ordinarily impossible to determine which of the conflicting rules was followed by the jury.”
2 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.