22 Cal. App. 3d 891 - Ebaugh v. Rabkin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 932 - Agarwal v. Johnson (1979), 24 Cal. 3d 809 - Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance (1979)
4 federal appellate · 60 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 Davis v. Hearst · Gombos v. Ashe · Wolfsen v. Hathaway · 21 Cal. 2d 109 - Deevy v. Tassi · Heinze v. Murphy
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any case of a wilful or reckless act or conduct without the required aggravating circumstances amounting to malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“implies an act conceived in a spirit of mischief or with criminal indifference towards the obligations owed to others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`denotes ill will on the part of the defendant, or his desire to do harm for the mere satisfaction of doing it'”
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.