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← 81 CALAPP2D 480 - McMahon v. McCulloch

McMahon v. McCulloch’s Empirical Analysis

1947

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
3
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 69 Cal. 2d 122 - People v. Bassett (1968), 79 Cal. App. 3d 325 - Hyatt v. Sierra Boat Co. (1978)

53 state decisions

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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 25 Cal. 2d 520 - Teel v. Gaskill · 16 Cal. 2d 573 - Peterson v. Logan · Estate of Perkins · Estate of Sexton · Estate of Dupont

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If [the expert's] opinion is not based upon facts otherwise proved, or assumes facts contrary to the only proof, it cannot rise to the dignity of substantial evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he court cannot in such a case make an order notwithstanding the verdict if there is substantial evidence to support the jury's finding.”
    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.