Lego v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2024
1 district · 12 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 32 Cal. 3d 197 - Davidson v. City of Westminster · 12 Conn. App. 570 - Dennison v. Klotz · Western United Realty, Inc. v. Isaacs · University of Denver v. Whitlock · Leake v. Cain
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appeal should be considered frivolous if the proponent can present no rational argument based on the evidence or law in support of a proponent's claim or defense, or the appeal is prosecuted for the sole purpose of harassment or delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lthough the determination of proximate cause is a question of fact for the jury when based on conflicting evidence, when there is no conflicting evidence, it is a matter of law for the court.”
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.