55 Cal. 2d 490 - Collison v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 230 Cal. App. 2d 987 - Alvarez v. Felker Manufacturing Co. (1964), 1 Cal. App. 3d 790 - Berkey v. Anderson (1969)
72 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 31 Cal. 2d 586 - Vaughn v. Jonas · Schlyen v. Schlyen · 28 Cal. 2d 276 - Colbert v. Colbert · 37 Cal. 2d 672 - Dabney v. Philleo · Silvers v. Grossman
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court did not lose jurisdiction of the case in the strict sense upon Mrs. Kellogg's death. This is established by the many cases in this state holding that the death of a party pending suit does not oust the jurisdiction of the court, and hence that the judgment is voidable only, not void. This does not mean that a judgment can be really rendered for or against a dead man, but that it can be rendered nominally for or against him, as representing his heirs, or other successors, who are the real parties intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlin““ ‘A party cannot permit an issue to be litigated and on appeal escape the consequences by claiming that such issue was not pleaded.’ [Citations.] While the pretrial order now frames the issues remaining in dispute (Rules for the Superior Court, rule 8.6[ † ], 47 Cal.2d 3 , 6-7) and in this respect supersedes the pleading [citation], the quoted rule should be equally applicable however the issues are framed.””
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.