Luz v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 14 Cal. 3d 727 - Kirkpatrick v. Edgar M. (1975), 32 Cal. 3d 892 - Carroll v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (1982)
195 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 Glock v. Howard & Wilson Colony Co. · 112 Cal. App. 2d 719 - Collins v. City & County of San Francisco · 72 Cal. App. 2d 508 - Elms v. Elms · Difani v. Riverside County Oil Co. · 158 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Evola v. Wendt Construction 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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]otices of appeal are to be liberally construed so as to protect the right of appeal if it is reasonably clear what appellant was trying to appeal from, and where the respondent could not possibly have been misled or prejudiced.”
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.