Armstrong v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard (1944), 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees (1957)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Cassady v. Old Colony Street Railway Co. · Michener v. Hutton · Hesler v. California Hospital Co. · 91 Cal. App. 483 - Dingwell v. Seymour · Connor v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears without contradiction that the hospital paid no compensation to its constituents for services, and that it paid no dividends; that it was conducted for the good of the community, by a charitable organization known as the Big Sisters League, with the intent and purpose that if there was a surplus over and above the expense of carrying it, such surplus would go to the said League.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the fact that Mrs. Armstrong paid the regular rates charged by the hospital for paying patients did not take it out of the class of charitable institutions, as the amount paid was not received to build up a profit but to assist in the carrying on of the general charitable purposes of the order”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if there was anything left after the operation of the hospital it went toward the upkeep of the institution locally and then for the benefit of the order at large”
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.