70 Cal. App. 4th 676 - Abbott v. Mandiola’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Marriage of Smith · In Re Guardianship of the Person & Estate of Sullivan · 3 Cal. 2d 19 - Francis v. Superior Court · Bidna v. Rosen · 221 Cal. App. 3d 1124 - MacKey v. Superior Court
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`rather than by one totally unfamiliar with such facts and who has made no special study of the law applicable to those facts....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Credibility determinations require a personal presence that a cold transcript cannot convey.”
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.