Ringle Development Corporation v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably Martin v. Leonard Motor-El Paso (1965), State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Molybdenum Corp. of America (1972)
54 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 · Hicks v. Bekins Moving & Storage Co. · American Nat. Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · Lee v. Colquhoun · 125 Cal. App. 504 - Goldborten v. Scott
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Except where the time is tolled by statute, such as the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Relief Act of 1940, § 201, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 521, or unless process has not been served because of inability to execute it on account of the absence of the defendant from the state, or his concealment within the state, or unless for some other good reason, the plaintiff is unable, for causes beyond his control, to bring the case to trial, the provision is mandatory.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yarbro v. Koury · Baca v. Burks““(e) Dismissal Of Action With Prejudice. “(1) In any civil action or proceeding pending in any district court in this state, when it shall be made to appear to the court that the plaintiff therein or any defendant filing a cross-complaint therein has failed to take any action to bring such action or proceeding to its final determination for a period of at least two [2] years after the filing of said action or proceeding or of such cross-complaint unless a written stipulation signed by all parties to said action or proceeding has been filed suspending or postponing final action therein beyond two [2] years, any party to such action or proceeding may have the same dismissed with prejudice to the prosecution of any other or further action or proceeding based on the same cause of action set up in the complaint or cross-complaint by filing in such pending action or proceeding a written motion moving the dismissal thereof with prejudice.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[F]or all practical purposes, going to trial would be impossible, whether this was because of a total lack of jurisdiction in the strict sense, or because proceeding to trial would be both impracticable and futile. In this connection, a useful analogy may be drawn from the rules on impossibility as a defense in the enforcement of contract obligations. Modern cases recognize as a defense not only objective impossibility in the true sense, but also impracticability due to excessive or unreasonable difficulty or expense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sewell v. Wilson
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.