Mandarelli v. McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1990
14 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 11 Cal. 3d 908 - Schroeder v. Auto Driveaway Co. · Schrib v. Seidenberg · Frost v. Lucey · Fred Baker v. Allen G. Dillon · Walsh v. City of Brewer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he justice before whom an action has been tried is in a far better position than an appellate court to know whether in light of his observations at the trial the damages awarded by the jury were so wholly inconsistent with the proof as to reflect some bias, prejudice or improper influence on the part of the jury or to support the conclusion that the verdict was the result of some mistaken fact or law on their part.”
3 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.