Compton v. Atwell’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
September 1960
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Titus v. Wallick · Mitchell v. Shoreridge Oil Co. · 36 Cal. App. 410 - Ingle Manufacturing Co. v. Scales · Koehne v. Harvey · Overbury v. Platten
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, but an executor, administrator, guardian, trustee of an express trust, a party with whom or in whose name a contract has been made for the benefit of another, or a party authorized by statute may sue in his own name without joining with him the party for whose benefit the action is brought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Compton v. Atwell
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.