49 Cal. App. 100 - Spring v. Tawa’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1941
8 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 Diamond v. Weyerhaeuser · Mayne v. San Diego Electric Ry. Co. · 44 Cal. App. 221 - Charves v. San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule has been laid down, both in the supreme court and in this court, that the ruling of a trial court as to whether a given state of facts presented before it does or does not amount to negligence as a matter of law will not be disturbed on appeal in the absence of a clear showing of an abuse of discretion. ( Mayne v. San Diego Elec. Ry. Co., 179 Cal. 173 [ 175 P. 690 ]; Diamond v. Weyerhaeuser, 178 Cal. 540 [ 174 P. 38 ]; Charves v. San Francisco O. T. Ry., 44 Cal.App. 221 [ 186 P. 154 ]).”
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.