Lennefelt v. Cranston’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1986
18 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 Bacon v. Bacon · 20 Cal. 2d 393 - Westphal v. Westphal · Hallett v. Slaughter · Turner v. Allen · 197 Cal. App. 2d 517 - Preston v. Wyoming Pacific Oil 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here an attorney knows the facts but mistakenly concludes that they are of no legal significance and does not present them at the hearing of the matter in question, his mistake is intrinsic and not extrinsic.”
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.