27 Cal. 2d 131 - Sears v. Rule’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 53 Cal. 2d 195 - Leeper v. Beltrami (1959), Huber v. Huber (1946)
1 federal appellate · 179 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 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · MacIsaac v. Pozzo · Estate of Rath · Kimball v. Pacific Gas Elec. 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is, of course, immaterial that the theory upon which the judgment may be affirmed is not identical with that relied upon by plaintiffs or by the trial court, since plaintiffs are required only to plead and prove facts sufficient to justify relief, and the trial court's judgment must be affirmed if the findings, supported by the evidence, are sufficient to warrant the relief granted on any legal theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if neither the threatened contest nor the settlement ... existed”
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.