21 Cal. App. 3d 1002 - Taylor v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Wisniewski v. Clary (1975), 125 Cal. App. 3d 623 - Nelson v. Gaunt (1981)
35 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 103 Cal. App. 2d 405 - Kalmus v. Kalmus · 221 Cal. App. 2d 410 - Larson v. Solbakken · Lombardi v. Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles · Doran v. Dreyer · 248 Cal. App. 2d 455 - Friedman v. Knecht
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hile it is the duty of a trial judge presiding over the trial of a case being conducted by a layman or a laywoman in propria persona to see that a miscarriage of justice does not occur through inadvertence, he is not required to act as counsel for that party in the presentation of evidence. (Citations omitted). A layperson, who is not indigent, and who exercises the privilege of trying his own case must expect and receive the same treatment as if represented by an attorney no different, no better, no worse,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] lay person,... who exercises the privilege of trying his own case must expect and receive the same treatment as if represented by an attorneyno different, no better, no worse.”
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.