21 Cal. 3d 82 - Marasco v. Wadsworth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably 29 Cal. 3d 442 - Okun v. Superior Court (1981), 91 Cal. App. 3d 942 - Munoz v. Purdy (1979)
3 district · 44 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 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo · Austin v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance · 2 Cal. 3d 575 - Grudt v. City of Los Angeles · 18 Cal. 3d 932 - Smeltzley v. Nicholson Manufacturing 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The original complaint attempts to state a claim against all the defendants, whether sued by true or fictitious names.. . . In this respect, plaintiff need do no more than set forth or attempt to set forth a cause of action against such defendants ... plaintiffs complaint stated a claim with at least as much particularity as the state of the case law and the applicable statutes would allow. . . . (Citations omitted.) 145 Cal.Rptr. at 846 , 578 P.2d at 93 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the policy favoring liberality in the amendment of pleadings to encourage litigating causes on their merits.”
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.