6 Cal. 2d 33 - Wattson v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1986 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 849 - Weitz v. Yankosky (1966), 32 Cal. 3d 892 - Carroll v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (1982)
27 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 Bacon v. Bacon · 98 Cal. App. 400 - Jeffords v. Young · 5 Cal. App. 273 - Amestoy Estate Co. v. City of Los Angeles · Brum v. Ivins · 73 Cal. App. 459 - Rudy v. Slotwinsky
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The breadth of the provisions of the statute may not ... properly be construed as an attempt to broaden the powers of a court of equity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the attention to the suit filed against them which ordinarily prudent businessmen would give to a matter of serious concern.”
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.