60 Cal. 2d 547 - French v. Brinkman’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 516 - Hess v. Ford Motor Co. (2002), Brinkmann v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance (1965)
47 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · 53 Cal. 2d 512 - Laux v. Freed · 51 Cal. 2d 702 - Ernie v. Trinity Lutheran Church · 50 Cal. 2d 502 - Pao Ch'en Lee v. GREGORICU · 55 Cal. App. 117 - McKevitt v. City of Sacramento
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be revised, on the application of a party aggrieved, so as to express that intention, so far as it can be done without prejudice to rights acquired by third persons, in good faith and for value.”
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.