80 Cal. App. 2d 936 - Ware v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), Coverstone v. Davies (1952)
2 district · 26 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 People v. Bradbury · Adair v. Williams · Weber v. Doust · State v. Bradshaw · 110 Cal. App. 347 - Vandiveer v. Charters
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is necessary to make out a charge of false imprisonment is that the individual be restrained of his liberty without any sufficient complaint or authority therefor, and it may be accomplished by words or acts which such individual fears to disregard. Temporary detention is sufficient, and the use of actual physical force is not necessary.”
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.