89 Cal. App. 2d 654 - Jonte v. Key System’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 61 Cal. 2d 602 - Horn v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1964), 58 Cal. 2d 292 - Di Mare v. Cresci (1962)
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 22 Cal. 2d 111 - Peri v. L.A. Junction Ry. · Citti v. Bava · Perry v. McLaughlin · 104 Cal. App. 621 - Aydlott v. Key System Transit Co. · Ades v. Brush
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.
““Concerning the alleged misconduct appellant complains that plaintiff’s attorney on cross-examination asked questions about conferences of defendant’s witnesses with employees and attorneys of defendant Key System and about possible suggestion which might have influenced the testimony. No objections to such questions were interposed except for one not clearly defined objection to a remark of plaintiff’s attorney that these questions were not meant to imply anything but only to have the jury know what the witness knew about the evidence. The objection was overruled and correctly so. Where the testimony of eyewitnesses is as inconsistent as in this case, counsel must have a certain freedom to inquire into the origin of the contradictions. Moreover, the questions had been answered and in a manner not unfavorable to appellant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Millstein v. Spektor
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.