91 Cal. App. 700 - Mellus v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1983
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Beach's Appeal · 86 Cal. App. 382 - Taylor v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 30 Cal. App. 58 - Cooley v. Brunswig Drug 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Claim’ in its primary meaning, is used to indicate the assertion of an existing right. In its secondary meaning it may be used to indicate the right itself. (Appeal of Beach, 76 Conn. 118 [ 55 Atl. 596, 599 ].) ” (See, also, Golden v. Golden, 155 Okl. 10 [ 8 Pac. (2d) 42 ] ; Vulcan Iron Works v. Edwards, 27 Or. 563 [ 36 Pac. 22 , 39 Pac. 403 ] ; Radichel v. Federal Security Co., 170 Minn. 92 [ 212 N. W. 171 ].)”
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.