Phillips v. Cleaver’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1952
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 52 Cal. App. 2d 10 - Miller v. Lee · Dow v. Ross · 81 Cal. App. 2d 316 - Armstrong v. Armstrong
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.
“Section 473 of the Code of Civil Procedure is a remedial provision and is to be liberally construed so as to dispose of cases upon their substantial merits, and to give to the party claiming in good faith to have a subsisting cause of action or a substantial defense thereto an opportunity to present 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.