Distefano v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 273 - T. M. Cobb Co. v. Superior Court (1984), Mysse v. Commissioner (1972)
55 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 33 Cal. 2d 116 - Sjoberg v. Hastorf · 65 Cal. 2d 396 - Coleman Engineering Co. v. North American Aviation, Inc. · 41 Cal. 2d 587 - Coughlin v. Blair · 25 Cal. 2d 375 - Nicholson v. Henderson · 129 Cal. App. 2d 853 - Chase v. National Indemnity 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) Not less than 10 days prior to commencement of the trial . .. any party may serve an offer in writing upon any other party to the action to allow judgment to be taken in accordance with the terms and conditions stated at that time. . [Italics added.] “(c) If an offer made by a defendant is not accepted and the plaintiff fails to obtain a more favorable judgment, the plaintiff shall not recover his costs and shall pay the defendant’s costs from the time of the offer. In addition. .. the court, in its discretion, may require the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s costs from the date of filing of the complaint. . . . [Italics added.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“process of settlement and compromise is a contractual one, and the applicable principles are those relating to contracts in general.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any new offer communicated prior to a valid acceptance of a previous offer, extinguishes and replaces the prior one.”
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.