Kaiser v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Wood Bros. Homes, Inc. v. Walker Adjustment Bureau (1979), Mascarenas v. Jaramillo (1991)
37 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 Desmet v. Sublett · Sherwood v. Wise · State Ex Rel. New Mexico Dry Cleaning Board v. Cauthen · Melody v. Great Northern Ry. 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No contractor shall act as agent or bring or maintain any action in any court of the state for the collection of compensation for the performance of any act for which a license is required by the Construction Industries Licensing Act without alleging and proving that such contractor was a duly licensed contractor at the time the alleged cause of action arose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is a well settled rule of law that a person cannot maintain an action if, in order to establish his cause of action, he must rely, in whole or. in part, on an illegal or immoral act or transaction to which he is a party, or where he must base his cause of action, in whole .or in part, on a violation by himself of the criminal or penal laws. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. Holcomb“render[ing] such contracts unlawful or unenforceable . . . and bar[ring] the right of recovery.”
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.