44 Cal. App. 2d 171 - Smith v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1999
20 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 Seymour v. Oelrichs · Booth v. Oakland Bank of Savings · Hagan v. McNary · Fulton v. Jansen · Molera v. Cooper
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following contracts are invalid, unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof, is in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged or by his agent: ... 6. An agreement which by its terms is not to be performed during the lifetime of the promisor ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tabata v. Murane
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.