Gudenau v. Bierria’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cree v. Goldstein · Sigmond v. United States · Miller v. Hall · United California Bank v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · International Shipping Co., S.A. v. Hydra Offshore, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A check is proper payment for an obligation, and so long as the check is honored, the obligation is considered paid when the payee receives it.”
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.