Gwinn v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1987 · most notably 41 Cal. 2d 300 - Herrscher v. Herrscher (1953), 48 Cal. 2d 611 - Lavine v. Jessup (1957)
34 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 Howe v. Key System Transit Co. · 24 Cal. 2d 878 - Wulfjen v. Dolton · Southern Pacific Railroad v. Willett · McColgan v. Jones, Hubbard & Donnell, Inc. · Consolidated Construction Co. v. Pacific Electric Railway
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A written dismissal of an action shall be entered in the clerk’s register or in the docket in the justice court, as the case may be, and is effective for all purposes when so entered. “All dismissals ordered by the court shall be entered upon the minutes thereof or in the docket in the justice court, as the case may be, and such orders when so entered shall constitute judgments and be effective for all purposes, and the clerk in superior and municipal courts shall note such judgments in Ms register of actions in the ease.””
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.