33 Cal. 3d 778 - Christensen v. Dewor Developments’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 3 Cal. 4th 1 - Moncharsh v. Heily & Blase (1992), 21 Cal. 4th 815 - Vandenberg v. Superior Court (1999)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 174 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 United States v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · 23 Cal. 3d 180 - Doers v. Golden Gate Bridge, Higway & Transportation District · 31 Cal. 3d 584 - Keating v. Superior Court · Dominick Carcich v. Rederi A/b Nordie, and Third-Party v. Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., Third-Party Luis Calderon v. Den Norske Syd Amerika and Bergen Steamship Company, Det. Bergenske Dampskibsselskab and Den Norske Syd Amerika Linje, Third-Party v. The Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., Third-Party · 29 Cal. 3d 781 - Wells v. Marina City Properties, Inc.
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such procedural gamesmanship provides ample support for the trial judge's conclusion that plaintiffs filed their action in bad faith, and by doing so waived their right to arbitrate. `The courtroom may not be used as a convenient vestibule to the arbitration hall so as to allow a party to create his own unique structure combining litigation and arbitration.' [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether a party retains the right to insist upon arbitration after he has filed a lawsuit over admittedly arbitrable disputes, for the asserted purpose of discovering his opponent's legal theories, and has pursued that litigation through successive demurrers, abandoning it only a day before a scheduled hearing on the adequacy of his amended complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n addition to the fact that defendants incurred nearly $ 300 in court costs and over $ 2,000 in attorney's fees, the lengthy nature of the delays associated with plaintiffs' abortive attempt at litigation has, we are told, resulted in faded memories and lost records by subcontractors”
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.