83 Cal. App. 3d 110 - Lemos v. Eichel’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 502 - Aceves v. Regal Pale Brewing Co. (1979), 175 Cal. App. 3d 1141 - Sagadin v. Ripper (1985)
37 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 21 Cal. 3d 322 - Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Nest-Kart · 79 Cal. App. 3d 325 - Hyatt v. Sierra Boat Co. · Buckley v. Chadwick
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) It shall not discharge any other such tortfeasor from liability unless its terms so provide, but it shall reduce the claims against the others in the amount stipulated by the release, the dismissal or the covenant, or in the amount of the consideration paid for it whichever is the greater; and “(b) It shall discharge the tortfeasor to whom it is given from all liability for any contribution to any other tortfeasors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the correct procedure is to apply each plaintiff's contributory fault percentage reduction to the total damage and reduce the resulting figure by the amount of that plaintiff's pretrial settlement”
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.