Key v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 212 Cal. App. 2d 345 - Frustuck v. City of Fairfax (1963), 154 Cal. App. 4th 547 - Yield Dynamics, Inc. v. TEA Systems Corp. (2007)
2 federal appellate · 59 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · Neel v. Mannings, Inc. · Fairchild v. Raines · 107 Cal. App. 2d 260 - Saks & Co. v. City of Beverly Hills · Hicks v. Whelan Drug Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . when a finding of fact is attacked on the ground that there is not any substantial evidence to sustain it, the power of an appellate court begins and ends with a determination as to whether there is any substantial evidence, contradicted or uncontradicted, which will support the finding of fact.””
2 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.