88 Cal. App. 1 - Reneau v. Hirsch’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1965 · most notably Bellman v. San Francisco High School District (1938), Michener v. Hutton (1928)
31 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 Zibbell v. Southern Pacific Co. · Hale v. San Bernardino Valley Traction Co. · Pierce v. United Gas and Electric Co. · Harrison v. Sutter Street Railway · Howland v. Oakland Consolidated Street Railway Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““10. Excessive damages appearing to have been given under the influence of prejudice; “11. Excessive damages appearing to have been given under the influence of passion.” (Subd. 5, sec. 657, Code Civ. Proc.) “The rule is well established that the amount of damages in this kind of an action is committed first to the sound discretion of the jury, and next to the discretion of the judge of the trial court who in ruling upon the motion for a new trial, may consider the evidence anew, determine anew the facts, and set aside the verdict if it is not just. Upon appeal, the decision of the trial court and the jury upon the subject cannot be set aside unless the verdict is ‘so plainly and outrageously excessive as to suggest, at first blush, passion or prejudice or corruption on the part of the jury’.” (Reneaum v. Hirsch, 88 Cal. App. 1 [ 262 Pac. 1100, 1102 ], and cases there cited; Michener v. Hutton, 203 Cal. 604 [59 A. L. R. 480, 265 Pac. 238 ], Sundberg v. Ringel, 100 Cal. App. 545 [ 280 Pac. 557 ], and Levy v. Berner, 110 Cal. App. 65 [ 293 Pac. 896 ].)”
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.