36 Cal. 3d 830 - Carson v. Facilities Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 252 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 47 Cal. 3d 278 - Nally v. Grace Community Church (1988), 27 Cal. App. 4th 809 - Wilcox v. Superior Court (1994)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 252 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 People v. Green · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · Elmore v. American Motors Corp. · Estate of Lances · 32 Cal. 3d 112 - Campbell v. General Motors Corp.
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit, the reviewing court is guided by the ... rule requiring evaluation of the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“' ( Ibid ., quoting Mason v. Peaslee (1959) 173 Cal.App.2d 587 , 588 [ 343 P.2d 805 ].)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) After the plaintiff has completed his or her opening statement, or the presentation of his or her evidence in a trial by jury, the defendant, without waiving his right to offer evidence in the event the motion is not granted, may move for a judgment of nonsuit.... [¶] (c) If the motion is granted, unless the court in its order for judgment otherwise specifies, the judgment of nonsuit operates as an adjudication upon the merits.”
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.