Sanker v. Humborg’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2017
7 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 Simoneau v. Pacific Electric Ry. Co. · 20 Cal. App. 288 - Evans v. Noonan · 107 Cal. App. 281 - Davis v. Fyfe · 48 Cal. App. 697 - Wisnom v. McCarthy · 47 Cal. App. 142 - Sumner v. Mohn
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under the rule prevailing [in California], what is a necessary of life must depend largely on the circumstances of each case and the position of the family involved. What is or what is not a necessary, must, to a considerable extent, be committed to the sound discretion of the trier of fact. Under the facts of this case and the law as it exists in California we can see no abuse of discretion in the decision rendered by the trial judge in holding that the various items of expense involved here were for necessaries of life." ( Sanker v. Humborg (1941) 48 Cal.App.2d 205 , 208 [ 119 P.2d 433 ] [in part upholding "music lessons for the children" as one of that particular family's necessaries].)”
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.