Stevensen v. Goodson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2016
1 district · 18 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 15 Cal. 3d 590 - Cornelison v. Kornbluth · Cooper v. Delaware Valley Medical Center · Winegar v. Froerer Corp. · American Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Leeds · Bowers v. Westvaco Corp.
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.
““First, ... the issue challenged in the case at hand [was] identical to the issue decided in the previous action. Second, the issue in the previous action [was] decided in a final judgment on the merits. Third, the issue in the previous action [was] competently, fully, and fairly litigated. Fourth, the opposing party in the action at hand [was] either a party or privy to the previous action.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In reviewing grants of directed verdicts . . . , we view all facts and the inferences drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“appellate courts are in as good a position as trial courts to interpret [legal issues such as] court rulings”
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.