Callahan v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably 53 Cal. 2d 455 - Petri Cleaners, Inc. v. Automotive Employees, Laundry Drivers & Helpers Local No. 88 (1960), Putensen v. Clay Adams, Inc. (1970)
5 federal appellate · 66 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · Estate of Bristol v. Young · Richter v. Walker · Gray v. Brinkerhoff · 42 Cal. 2d 734 - Thomas v. Hunt Manufacturing 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ “When two or more inferences can be reasonably deduced from the facts, the reviewing court is without power to substitute its deduction for those of the trial court. . . .” ’ (Callahan v. Gray, 44 Cal.2d 107, 111 [ 279 P.2d 963 ] ; 3 Witkin, Cal. Procedure, Appeal, § 88, pp. 2251-2252.) ’ ’ (Greening v. General Air-Conditioning Corp., 233 Cal.App.2d 545, 551 [ 43 Cal.Rptr. 662 ].)”
6 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.