Seches v. Bard’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1975
23 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 Realty & Rebuilding Co. v. Rea · Verbeck v. Clymer · Bemmerly v. Woodward · Hentsch v. Porter
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule has long been settled that the defense that an action is premature is in the nature of a dilatory plea not favored in the law, and that such defense must be seasonably urged in the trial court or it is waived.” (See also Kelley v. Upshaw, 39 Cal.2d 179, 186 [ 246 P.2d 23 ].)”
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.