Fields v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Weinberg v. Weinberg (1967), Bank of California v. Connolly (1973)
3 federal appellate · 46 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 Arnold v. Leonard · Siberell v. Siberell · 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · 3 Cal. 2d 740 - Union Sugar Co. v. Hollister Estate Co. · 17 Cal. 2d 679 - Grolemund v. Cafferata
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be properly used to signify any valuable right or interest protected by law ... [but] the meaning to be given to the word depends upon the sense in which it is used, as gathered from the context and the nature of the things which it was intended to refer to and include.'”
2 later decisions 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.