Sears v. Baccaglio’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 22 Cal. 4th 1084 - PLCM Group, Inc. v. Drexler (2000), 47 Cal. 4th 1327 - Goodman v. Lozano (2010)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 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 2 Cal. 4th 556 - Burden v. Snowden · 9 Cal. 4th 863 - Chia-Lee Hsu v. Abbara · 11 Cal. 4th 274 - Trope v. Katz · 35 Cal. 3d 498 - Gray v. Don Miller & Associates, Inc. · 51 Cal. 3d 202 - Kimmel v. Goland
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he party prevailing on the contract shall be the party who recovered a greater relief in the action on the contract. The court may also determine that there is no party prevailing on the contract for purposes of this section.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“includes the party with a net monetary recovery, a defendant in whose favor a dismissal is entered, a defendant where neither plaintiff nor defendant obtains any relief, and a defendant as against those plaintiffs who do not recover any relief against that defendant. When any party recovers other than monetary relief and in situations other than as specified, the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as attorney's fees are specifically provided for by statute, the measure and mode of compensation of attorneys and counselors at law is left to the agreement, express or implied, of the parties ....”
2 later decisions 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.