Wuest v. Wuest’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 70 Cal. 2d 272 - Linsk v. Linsk (1969), Bisno v. Sax (1959)
63 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 Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Adams · McClatchy v. Superior Court of Sacramento · Gardner v. Samuels · 20 Cal. App. 91 - Madary v. City of Fresno · Bechtel v. Wier
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making the waiver of appeal by plaintiff from any portion of the judgment the price of obtaining a judgment to which she was entitled, the trial judge materially prejudiced a substantial right belonging to plaintiff. The trial of a case should not only be fair in fact, but it should also appear to be fair, and where the contrary appears it shocks the judicial instinct and conscience to allow the judgment to stand”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so that they shall correspond both to the primaiy right of the injured party, and to the wrong by which that right has been violated,” and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. Berg
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.