Martin v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 33 Cal. 3d 348 - Westside Community for Independent Living, Inc. v. Obledo (1983), 32 Cal. 3d 892 - Carroll v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (1982)
61 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 66 Cal. 2d 468 - Tammen v. County of San Diego · Coyne v. Krempels · 5 Cal. 3d 431 - Tresway Aero, Inc. v. Superior Court · Bailey v. Taaffe · 227 Cal. App. 2d 380 - Daley v. County of Butte
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`exercised in conformity with the spirit of the law and in a manner to subserve and not to impede or defeat the ends of substantial justice.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“counsel for plaintiff's explanation of his delay when considered in the light of the record ... demonstrates a lack of activity ... [and] indicates a failure to discharge the duty devolving upon every person who files an action on behalf of his client, to prosecute it with reasonable promptness and diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[f]ailure of plaintiff's counsel to carefully read and understand the stipulation prior to executing and filing the same is inexcusable conduct and does not provide the foundation for estoppel to assert the five-year mandatory dismissal statute.”
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.