Hallett v. Slaughter’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 467 - Kulchar v. Kulchar (1969), 63 Cal. 2d 849 - Weitz v. Yankosky (1966)
2 federal appellate · 103 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 Olivera v. Grace · Bacon v. Bacon · 98 Cal. App. 400 - Jeffords v. Young · 55 Cal. App. 2d 421 - Wilson v. Wilson · 106 Cal. App. 388 - Hartke v. Abbott
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff was prevented by extrinsic accident and mistake of fact from presenting her defense in the municipal court action. That such accident and mistake furnish a ground for equitable intervention under the circumstances of this case is clear.”
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.