Riskin v. Towers’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 7 Cal. 3d 94 - Barquis v. Merchants Collection Assn. (1972), 28 Cal. 4th 249 - Zamora v. Clayborn Contracting Group, Inc. (2002)
44 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 Waite v. Southern Pacific Co. · O'Brien v. Leach · Ingrim v. Epperson · 107 Cal. App. 691 - Roehl v. the Texas Co. · Alferitz v. Cahen
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the provisions of section 473 of the Code of Civil Procedure are to be liberally construed and sound policy favors the determination of actions on their merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect.”
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.