37 Cal. App. 2d 269 - Davis v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 388 - Hale v. Morgan (1978), 31 Cal. 2d 801 - In Re Trombley (1948)
64 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 45 Cal. App. 396 - May v. New York Motion Picture Corp. · 40 Cal. App. 700 - Manford v. Singh · 91 Cal. App. 405 - Jacobson v. Lamb · 49 Cal. App. 133 - First National Bank of Dixon v. Spangler · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Russell
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`In civil cases the word "wilful," as ordinarily used in courts of law, does not necessarily imply anything blamable, or any malice or wrong toward the other party, or perverseness or moral delinquency, but merely that the thing done or omitted to be done was done or omitted intentionally. It amounts to nothing more than this: That the person knows what he is doing, intends to do what he is doing, and is a free agent. '"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a deliberate evil purpose to defraud work[ers] of wages which the employer knows to be due”
2 later decisions 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.