63 Cal. App. 3d 694 - DeSuza v. Andersack’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 54 Cal. 3d 868 - Christensen v. Superior Court (1991), Batzel v. Smith (2003)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 Rowland v. Christian · Dillon v. Legg · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · 15 Cal. 3d 40 - Weirum v. RKO General, Inc.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Agency is the fiduciary relationship that arises when one person (a `principal') manifests assent to another person (an `agent') that the agent shall act on the principal's behalf and subject to the principal's control, and the agent manifests assent or otherwise consents so to act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Batzel v. Smith“While it is true that the existence or absence of agency is ordinarily a question of fact, triable by a jury, where the evidence ... is susceptible of only one inference, i.e., the absence of agency, no triable issue of fact is presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The right of the alleged principal to control the behavior of the alleged agent is an essential element which must be factually present in order to establish the existence of agency....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Batzel v. Smith
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.