68 Cal. 2d 93 - Smith v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 10 Cal. 4th 1226 - Alliance Mortgage Co. v. Rothwell (1995), 15 Cal. 3d 590 - Cornelison v. Kornbluth (1975)
12 federal appellate · 77 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 37 Cal. 2d 16 - Freedman v. Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Matthias Parish · Caplan v. Schroeder
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is clear that the Legislature intended that a properly conducted [nonjudicial] foreclosure sale should constitute a final adjudication of the rights of the borrower and the lender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[R]ights of the parties are determined by the statutory provisions respecting foreclosures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“designed to provide adequate protection to the borrower against forfeitures.”
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.