33 Cal. 3d 868 - Miller v. Bechtel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1988), 34 Cal. 3d 18 - Williams v. State of California (1983)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 178 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 Stationers Corp. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. · Hobart v. Hobart Estate Co. · 56 Cal. 2d 329 - Vai v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · 32 Cal. 2d 13 - Jorgensen v. Jorgensen · 52 Cal. App. 3d 118 - Bedolla v. Logan & Frazer
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even assuming the correctness of this assertion, however, if she became aware of facts which would make a reasonably prudent person suspicious, she had a duty to investigate further, and she was charged with knowledge of matters which would have been revealed by such an investigation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An action for relief on the ground of fraud ... is not deemed to have accrued until the discovery, by the aggrieved party, of the facts constituting the fraud.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“any doubts as to the propriety of granting a summary judgment motion should be resolved in favor of the party opposing the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.