Newman v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 1958
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wirthman v. Isenstein · 28 Cal. App. 241 - Weaver v. Carter · 114 Cal. App. 482 - Murphy v. National Ice Cream 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the appellant desired an instruction explaining in more detai^ the weight to he given the elements fixing her life expectancy . . . such an instruction should have been offered. This was not done, and in the circumstances appellant has no ground for complaint.””
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.