Westbrook v. Fairchild’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2019
20 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 Snapp v. State Farm & Fire Casualty Co. · 21 Cal. 3d 365 - McConnell v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. · 76 Cal. App. 2d 536 - State of California v. Day · 33 Cal. 3d 816 - McConnell v. MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH · 95 Cal. App. 3d 908 - Big Bear Properties, Inc. v. Gherman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]t has generally been held that a judgment bears interest on the whole amount thereof, although such amount is made up partly of interest on the original obligation, and even though the interest is separately stated in the judgment. This rule is not affected by statutes which prohibit the allowance of compound interest ....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of the setting of such rate by the Legislature, the rate of interest on any judgment rendered in any court of the state shall be 7 percent per annum”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Another common situation in which interest on interest is allowed is when prejudgment interest is incorporated in a judgment which then bears interest.”
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.