Hughes v. Kimble’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2016
13 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 9 Cal. 2d 526 - Christin v. Superior Court · 35 Cal. 3d 229 - Moran v. Superior Court · 2 Cal. 3d 545 - Brunzell Construction Co. v. Wagner · 144 Cal. App. 2d 445 - Reeves v. Hutson · Hill v. Bingham
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action shall be brought to trial within five years after the action is commenced against the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In computing the time within which an action must be brought to trial pursuant to this article. there shall be excluded the time during which any of the following conditions existed: a) The jurisdiction of the court to try the action was suspended. b) Prosecution or trial of the action was stayed or enjoined. c) Bringing the action to trial, for any other reason, was impossible, impracticable, or futile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) An action shall be dismissed by the court on its own motion or on motion of the defendant, after notice to the parties, if the action is not brought to trial within the time prescribed in this article [§§ 583.310-583.360], (b) The requirements of this article are mandatory and are not subject to extension, excuse, or exception except as expressly provided by statute.”
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.