Mather v. Mather’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 4 Cal. 3d 800 - Vasquez v. Superior Court (1971), 15 Cal. 4th 288 - Sullivan v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1997)
56 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 Gunder v. Gunder · Middleton v. Finney · De Vally v. Kendall De Vally Operalogue Co. · 130 Cal. App. 510 - Potvin v. Pacific Greyhound Lines, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . It is evident that the cause was attempted to be disposed of piecemeal—- that a single object, although stated in several counts, was sought to be attained by the action, and that this single and unseverable object was arbitrarily attempted to be split up as the basis for two distinct judgments. It is at once apparent that no final judgment was entered in the action until March 14, 1935. The judgment of January 4, 1935, was not a final judgment and is not appealable under the terms of section 963 of the Code of Civil Procedure, or otherwise. Our conclusion is fully supported by the leading case of Gunder v. Gunder, 208 Cal. 559 [ 282 P. 794 ], and the many cases which follow it, . . . . ’ ””
3 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.