McComsey v. Leaf’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably 129 Cal. App. 2d 558 - Cone v. Union Oil Co. (1954), 200 Cal. App. 2d 741 - Snider v. Snider (1962)
76 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 Curry v. MacKenzie · Maurice O'Meara Co. v. National Park Bank · Gravenhorst v. . Zimmerman · Bates v. Babcock · 41 Cal. App. 167 - Trout v. Ogilvie
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It never could have been, or in justice ought to have been the intention of those who framed our Practice Act and rules thereunder that the decision of such a serious question as this should be flung off on a motion for summary judgment. (Italics ours.) Whatever -the final judgment may be, the defendants were entitled to have the issue deliberately tried, and their right to be heard in the usual manner of a trial protected. ’ ’”
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.