Caplan v. Schroeder’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 9 Cal. 3d 731 - Garrett v. Coast & Southern Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1973), 68 Cal. 2d 267 - Bambridge v. Westerman (1968)
95 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 Ward v. Taggart · 37 Cal. 2d 16 - Freedman v. Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Matthias Parish · Panopulos v. Maderis · 52 Cal. 2d 154 - Rodriguez v. Barnett · Better Food Markets, Inc. v. American District Telegraph 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every contract by which the amount of damage to be paid, or other compensation to. be made, for a breach of an obligation, is determined in anticipation thereof, is to that extent void, except as expressly provided in the next section.””
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.