Willingham v. Pecora’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Peiser v. Mettler (1958), 25 Cal. 2d 202 - Cooney v. Cooney (1944)
46 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 Cook v. Pendergast · Wrin v. Ohlandt · Pascoe v. Baker · Scott v. Stuart · 34 Cal. App. 426 - Barclay v. Supreme Lodge of Fraternal Brotherhood
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he determination of motions for change of venue upon grounds specified in subdivision 3 of section 397 of the Code of Civil Procedure rests largely in the sound discretion of the trial judge”
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.