5 Cal. 3d 809 - MacFadden v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Jenkins v. Wise (1978), In Re Sapolin Paints, Inc. (1980)
4 federal appellate · 52 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 37 Cal. 2d 16 - Freedman v. Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Matthias Parish · Barkis v. Scott · Baffa v. Johnson · 64 Cal. 2d 801 - Honey v. Henry's Franchise Leasing Corp. of America · 135 Cal. App. 2d 720 - Petersen v. Ridenour
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law governing those security devices should be adopted with appropriate modifications in determining the remedies for breaches of installment contracts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]ince we have concluded... that Mrs. Walker [the vendee] is entitled to the remedy of specific performance, we need not decide whether she might also be entitled to some other remedy under the law governing security transactions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“upon making full compensation to the other party, except in case of a grossly negligent, willful, or fraudulent breach of duty.”
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.