Sandoval v. Rattikin’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2000 · most notably Bartsch v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (1968), 32 Cal. App. 3d 592 - Sackett v. Wyatt (1973)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Armstrong v. Manzo · Western v. Henderson · Ralph Santana v. United States · Paul Hill Saunders v. Daniel Shaw
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To some extent, a lawyer’s client like a doctor’s patient must suffer the consequences of his champion’s mistakes. But there are limits; and the courts are and should be quick to relieve the client of his lawyer’s default whenever that is feasible and does not result in unfairness to others. 87 S.Ct. at 200 , 17 L.Ed.2d at 132 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Martin
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.