Bonnelfillio v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1986 · most notably 29 Cal. 2d 492 - Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission (1946), 42 Cal. 3d 572 - Bowen v. Board of Retirement of Los Angeles County Employees' Retirement Ass'n (1986)
27 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 McDougald v. Hulet · Fighiera v. Radis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the appeal is upon the judgment roll, we must presume that all facts found by the court and not within the pleadings in the case were by agreement of court and counsel put in issue during the trial of the action. McDougald v. Hulet, 132 Cal. 154 , 64 P. 2d 278 ; Fighiera, v. Radis, 180 Cal. 660 , 182 P. 418 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. Jenkins
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.