McDonald v. Filice’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 19 Cal. App. 3d 581 - Coast Bank v. Holmes (1971), 2 Cal. 3d 152 - Walker v. Lytton Savings & Loan Ass'n (1970)
23 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · Buxbom v. Smith · 189 Cal. App. 2d 140 - Nolte v. Smith · 35 Cal. 2d 389 - Tomales Bay Oyster Corp. v. Superior Court · Ades v. Brush
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an elementary principle of modern pleading that the nature and character of a pleading is to be determined from its allegations, regardless of what it may be called, and that the subject matter of an action and issues involved are determined from the facts alleged rather than from the title of the pleadings or the character of the damage recovery suggested in connection with the prayer for relief.”
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.