Cromwell v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2018
12 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 8 Cal. 4th 666 - Crowley v. Katleman · 58 Cal. 2d 23 - Stasher v. Harger-Haldeman · Ridder v. City of Springfield · 188 Cal. App. 2d 300 - Caryl Richards, Inc. v. Superior Court · 30 Cal. App. 4th 859 - Kane v. Hurley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]orrespondence to opposing counsel which threatens sanctions of an unknown nature at an unspecified time against unidentified persons, and which lacks citation to controlling authority, does not fulfill these statutory purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'Application of the doctrine of substantial compliance would be inconsistent with the plain language of the "safe harbor”
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.