Kulesa v. Castleberry’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 39 Cal. 4th 299 - Flatley v. Mauro (2006), 98 Cal. App. 4th 892 - Kashian v. Harriman (2002)
50 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 53 Cal. 3d 315 - Woods v. Young · 2 Cal. 4th 606 - Laird v. Blacker · 11 Cal. 4th 583 - Adams v. Paul · United Community Church v. Garcin · 35 Cal. App. 4th 620 - Camp v. Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no triable issue as to any material fact.”
2 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.