Alexander v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 908 - Schroeder v. Auto Driveaway Co. (1974), 119 Cal. App. 2d 717 - Schmidt v. MacCo Construction Co. (1953)
44 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 In Re Estate of Higgins · Bate v. Jolin · 23 Wash. 2d 890 - Baum v. Murray · Allen v. Elliott · 130 Cal. App. 172 - McFate v. Zuckerman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of a contrary showing in the record, all presumptions in favor of the action of the trial court will be indulged by an appellate 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.