Kahn v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1970 · most notably Phelan v. Superior Court (1950), Treber v. Superior Court (1968)
31 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 Evans v. Superior Court · Christ v. Superior Court · 39 Cal. App. 471 - Moch v. Superior Court · Los Angeles Trust & Saving Bank v. Ward · McCordic v. Crawford
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided in section 12a of this code, the power of the court to pass on motion for a new trial shall expire sixty (60) days from and after service on the moving party of written notice of the entry of the judgment, or if such notice has not theretofore been served, then sixty (60) days after filing of the notice of intention to move for a new trial. If such motion is not determined within said period of sixty (60) days, or within said period as thus extended, the effect shall be a denial of the motion without further order of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCordic v. Crawford
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.