32 Cal. 3d 755 - Martinez v. Traubner’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 273 - T. M. Cobb Co. v. Superior Court (1984), 33 Cal. 3d 604 - Valley Circle Estates v. VTN Consolidated, Inc. (1983)
56 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 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · 14 Cal. 3d 831 - Estate of McDill · 21 Cal. 3d 624 - Regents of University of California v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 104 Cal. App. 3d 398 - Leaf v. City of San Mateo · Wagner v. State of California
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) No action may be brought to recover damages from any person, or the surety of a person, who develops real property or performs or furnishes the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing, or observation of construction or construction of an improvement to real property more than 10 years after the substantial completion of the development or improvement for any of the following: “(1) Any latent deficiency in the design, specification, surveying, planning, supervision, or observation of construction or construction of an improvement to, or survey of, real property. “(2) Injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such latent deficiency. “(c) As used in this section, 'action' includes an action for indemnity brought against a person arising out of that person’s performance or furnishing of services or materials referred to in this section, except that a cross-complaint for indemnity may be filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 428.10 in an action which has been brought within the time period set forth in subdivision (a) of this section. “(f) This section shall not apply to actions based on willful misconduct or fraudulent concealment. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moseley v. Abrams“' "protect developers of real estate against liability extending indefinitely into the future.”
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.