Appleton v. Waessil’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 516 - Hess v. Ford Motor Co. (2002), 109 Cal. App. 4th 944 - Founding Members of Newport Beach Country Club v. Newport Beach Country Club, Inc. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 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 62 Cal. 2d 861 - Parsons v. Bristol Development Co. · 69 Cal. 2d 33 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co. · 4 Cal. App. 4th 1159 - Winet v. Price · 210 Cal. App. 3d 1071 - Stratton v. First National Life Insurance · Madison v. Superior Court
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it was the intent of the parties to release respondent, one' has to wonder why such an important player in the cast of characters was not specifically named in the document. The simple fact that respondent was not named created an apparent ambiguity. The extrinsic evidence provided by appellant tended to show that the intent of the parties was not to include respondent in the settlement.”
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.