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← 56 CALAPP2D 693 - Wagner v. Sariotti

Wagner v. Sariotti’s Empirical Analysis

1943

Citation profile

69
cited by 69 later decisions
3
states following
January 2009
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 153 - Isrin v. Superior Court (1965), 51 Cal. App. 3d 590 - Weiss v. Marcus (1975)

6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions

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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 Hurley v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Red Bud Realty Co. v. South · Haupt v. Charlie's Kosher Market · 87 Cal. App. 549 - Tracy v. Ringole · 7 Cal. 2d 168 - City of Los Angeles v. Knapp

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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “But the attorney may secure such a lien by contract. [Citations.] In order to create such a lien the parties are not required to use the word 'lien' in their contract. The real question in each case is, whether or not the parties have contracted that the lawyer is to look to the judgment he may secure as security for his fee. If so, an equitable lien is created. ... Such a lien is, in reality, an equitable assignment for security, and is fundamentally different from a power coupled with an interest. The equity courts look with favor upon equitable liens and frequently such liens are employed to do justice and equity and to prevent unfair results. [Citations.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 110 Cal. App. 2d 683 - Bartlett v. Pacific Nat. Bank

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.