26 Cal. App. 1 - Lima v. Lima’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1985
8 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 Forbes v. Hyde · Kirschner v. Dietrich · Begbie v. Begbie · Mott v. Mott · Columbia Screw Co. v. Warner Lock 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I have fully and fairly stated the facts of this case to Mr. ___ ..., who is my counsel, and I am by him informed and I verily believe that I have a good cause of action in this suit against the said defendant, as will fully appear by my complaint now on file herein, to which reference is hereby made and the said defendant ..., is a necessary and proper party defendant thereto, as I am advised by my said counsel, after such statement made as aforesaid, and as I verily believe”
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.