Eng v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 8 Cal. 4th 548 - Soule v. General Motors Corp. · 1 Cal. 3d 93 - Jones v. H. F. Ahmanson & Co. · 46 Cal. 2d 715 - Desny v. Wilder · 33 Cal. 4th 780 - Cassim v. Allstate Insurance · People v. Jones
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.
“It is elementary that a court may refuse a party's request for a jury instruction that misstates the law. 'A trial court has no duty to modify or edit an instruction offered by either side in a civil case. If the instruction is incomplete or erroneous the trial judge may, as he did here, properly refuse it.' [Citations.]”
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.