Jordan v. Guerra’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 59 Cal. 2d 97 - Casey v. Proctor (1963), 78 Cal. App. 4th 847 - Shade Foods, Inc. v. Innovative Products Sales & Marketing, Inc. (2000)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 O'Meara v. Haiden · Meyer v. Haas · Estate of Yale · Estate of Fleming · Garcia v. California Truck Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . confined to cases where the plaintiff could not read or was prevented by the defendant from reading the release, or was mentally incompetent to comprehend the meaning of its language, regardless of any other device or deception employed to mislead him. In any case it is for the trier of the facts to determine what the plaintiff understood was covered by the writing and whether his understanding different from the writing was induced by the defendant. If a misconception be found and that the defendant was responsible therefor, the contract insofar as it purports to release claims other than those understood by the plaintiff to be included, is ineffective to that extent. . . . ” p. 352.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [S]uch a release because of the deception practiced upon the claimant must be construed as a settlement of those matters only as to which the minds of the parties met, and may not be considered to be in satisfaction of anything not consented to by the plaintiff. [ 144 P.2d at 352 .]”
2 later decisions 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.