46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
435 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 438 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 875 - Foreman & Clark Corp. v. Fallon (1971), 30 Cal. 3d 721 - Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson (1982)
435 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 Overton v. Vita-Food Corp. · Treadwell v. Nickel · 63 Cal. App. 2d 214 - Kennedy v. Isenberg · Baldwin v. Baldwin · Crater v. Crater
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 438 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a finding of fact is attacked on the ground that there is not any substantial evidence to sustain it, the power of an appellate court begins and ends with the determination as to whether there is any substantial evidence contradicted or uncontradicted which will support the finding of fact.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e have no power to judge of the effect or value of the evidence, to weigh the evidence, to consider the credibility of the witnesses, or to resolve conflicts in the evidence or in the reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When two or more inferences can reasonably be deduced from the facts, a reviewing court is without power to substitute its deductions for those of the [trier of fact]”
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.