Diehl v. Hanrahan’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1990
10 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 54 Cal. App. 2d 230 - Smith v. Addiego · 79 Cal. App. 387 - Fresno Investment Co. v. Brandon · Woodill & Hulse Electric Co. v. Young · McMillan v. O'Brien · Weinreich v. Hensley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-established in this state ... that in the absence of any statutory enactment establishing a rule of priority for special assessment and bond liens, that such liens are ranked in the inverse order of their creation, that is to say that the last in point of time is superior in rank, or is first in priority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the general rule that the right of subrogation is given to one who, having a lien upon specific property, discharges a prior lien thereon in order to protect his own claim; and this notwithstanding that he was not compelled to do so.”
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.