Kornbau v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably Cox v. Summa Corp. (1985), Frederick Road Ltd. Partnership v. Sturm (2000)
8 federal appellate · 18 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 Morgan Clark v. Millsap · Lefrooth v. Prentice · Booth v. Oakland Bank of Savings · 65 Cal. App. 727 - Palladine v. Imperial Valley Farm Lands Assn. · 115 Cal. App. 597 - Feeny v. Smiley
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * While it is true that from the allegations of the complaint and the evidence a cause of action based on fraud can be spelled out, that is not the only cause of action pleaded, and proved. . . . Those facts show not only fraud, but also the breach of an oral voluntary continuing trust.”
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.