31 Cal. App. 2d 335 - Keefer v. Keefer’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 84 Cal. App. 4th 536 - Lester v. Lennane (2000), 9 Cal. App. 4th 1745 - Save Our Residential Environment v. City of West Hollywood (1992)
52 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 Realty Bonds & Finance Co. v. Point Richmond Canal & Land Co. · Adams v. Prather
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court will not review questions which are moot and which are only of academic importance. It will not undertake to determine abstract questions of law ... [where] no substantial rights can be affected by the decision either way.”
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.