Ware v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 30 Cal. 2d 388 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission (1947), Holloway v. Barrett (1971)
33 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 Richmond Mortgage Loan Corporation v. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co · Gelfert v. National City Bank · Morris v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · American States Water Service Co. v. Johnson · 27 Cal. App. 2d 513 - Birkhofer v. Krumm
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A retrospective law is one that relates back to a previous transaction and gives it some different legal effect from that which it had under the law when it occurred.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Miles“A retrospective law is one which affects rights, obligations, acts, transactions and conditions which are performed or exist prior to the adoption of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“operate on existing causes of action and defenses, and it is a misnomer to designate them as having retrospective effect.”
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.