DiPietro v. Boynton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2025
4 district · 16 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 52 Cal. 3d 988 - Hydrotech Systems, Ltd. v. Oasis Waterpark · Tuttle v. Raymond · Shaughnessy v. Eidsmo · Beegan v. Schmidt · Marso v. Mankato Clinic, Ltd.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What factual grouping constitutes a “transaction” [is] to be determined pragmatically, giving weight to such considerations as whether the facts are related in time, space, origin, or motivation, whether they from a convenient trial unit, and whether their treatment as a unit conforms to the parties’ expectations or business understanding or usage.””
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.