Foster v. Pestana’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1975
3 federal appellate · 16 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 23 Cal. 2d 600 - Loper v. Morrison · Showalter v. Western Pacific Railroad · 21 Cal. 2d 109 - Deevy v. Tassi · Hicks v. Ocean Shore Railroad, Inc. · Hale v. San Bernardino Valley Traction Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not follow that because a plaintiff 36 years ago received a none too generous verdict, the award herein was too generous. ’ ’”
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.