Dawson v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably 7 Cal. 3d 94 - Barquis v. Merchants Collection Assn. (1972), 36 Cal. 3d 273 - T. M. Cobb Co. v. Superior Court (1984)
48 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 Hale v. Bohannon · Armstrong v. Smith · 31 Cal. 2d 766 - Warner Bros. Pictures v. Brodel · 118 Cal. App. 2d 815 - Pacific Bal Industries v. Northern Timber, Inc. · Seeburg v. El Royale 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . When a defendant has contracted to perform an obligation in a particular county, either the county where such obligation is to be performed, or in which the contract was in fact entered into, or the county in which the defendant, or any such defendant, resides at the commencement of the action, shall be a proper county for the trial of the action founded on such obligation, and the county in which such obligation is incurred shall be deemed to be the county in which it is to be performed unless there is a special contract in writing to the contrary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The counties in which an action on the contract may be tried are two, that of defendant’s residence or where the contract is made, unless there is a special contract in writing to the contrary. [Citing cases.] ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Mode of Communicating Acceptance of Proposal. If a proposal prescribes any conditions concerning the communica tion of its acceptance, the proposer is not bound unless they are conformed to; but in other cases any reasonable and usual mode may be adopted.””
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.