Freeman v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1972 · most notably Peiser v. Mettler (1958), 60 Cal. App. 2d 514 - Hays v. Cowles (1943)
37 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 McClung v. Watt · Hellman v. Logan · Sayward v. Houghton · Mills v. Brown · Mathew v. Mathew
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.
““Upon a motion for a change of venue, however, if the allegations do no more ‘than shadow forth the semblance of a cause of action’ they are ‘proof against assault upon the ground that they’ are ‘sham and frivolous.’ (McClung v. Watt, 190 Cal. 155 [ 211 P. 17 ].) The more recent ease of Mills v. Brown, 205 Cal. 38, 41 [ 269 P. 636 ], quotes with approval from the McClung case as follows: ‘It is enough, however, upon the hearing and determination of the demand for a change of venue, that the cause of action purported to be stated against the corporation defendant was apparently pleaded in good faith and is not, prima fade, so glaringly and vitally defective as to be beyond correction by amendment.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daugherty v. Kaplan
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.