Kimberlin v. Lear’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 53 Cal. 2d 340 - King v. Lennen · Copfer v. Golden · Orr Ditch & Water Co. v. Justice Court of Reno Township · Allen v. William P. McDonald Corporation · Jones v. Billings
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) the vendee does not know or have reason to know of the condition or the risk involved, and “(b) the vendor knows or has reason to know of the condition, and realizes or should realize the risk involved, and has reason to believe that the vendee will not discover the condition or realize the risk.”
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.