Smith v. Kessler’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2016
5 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 20 Cal. 2d 697 - Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Superior Court · Odell v. Cox · Freeman v. Gray-Cowan, Inc. · Winbigler v. Sherman · Bunting v. Haskell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding that Code of Civil Procedure section 702 provides that a judgment debtor may redeem the property ‘any time within 12 months after the sale’ the case law is well established that the statute is not a bar to later redemption where equitable considerations call for such relief. .. ”.”
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.