Watson v. Sutro’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Maryland Casualty Co. (1998), 76 Cal. App. 2d 75 - Shapiro v. Equitable Life Assurance Society (1946)
49 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 Town of Coloma v. Eaves · Williamson v. . Brown · Davis v. Davis · Walnut v. Wade · Unger v. Mooney
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“notice to an agent is notice to the principal....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.