Billings v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2019
16 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 75 Cal. App. 3d 655 - Woodruff v. McDonald's Restaurants · Knapp v. Superior Court of San Mateo County · 65 Cal. App. 3d 802 - Ginns v. Shumate · Owen v. Niagara MacHine and Tool Works
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a person or corporation elects to follow the statutory procedure of section 17900 et seq. of the Business and Professions Code [relating to fictitious business names], it has held itself out to those with whom it does business as having adopted that name for all business purposes. Notice to it under that name is all that the law requires.”
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.