63 Cal. 2d 849 - Weitz v. Yankosky’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
234 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 18 - Mann v. Cracchiolo (1985), 44 Cal. 3d 474 - Shamblin v. Brattain (1988)
234 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 Olivera v. Grace · Abbott v. City of Los Angeles · Newport v. Hatton · Benjamin v. Dalmo Manufacturing Co. · Waybright v. Anderson
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he policy of the law is to have every litigated case tried upon its merits, and it looks with disfavor upon a party, who, regardless of the merits of the case, attempts to take advantage of the mistake, surprise, inadvertence, or neglect of his adversary.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 473 is often applied liberally where the party in default moves promptly to seek relief, and the party opposing the motion will not suffer prejudice if relief is granted. [Citations.] In such situations `very slight evidence will be required to justify a court in setting aside the default.' [Citations.]”
3 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.