93 Cal. App. 97 - Stanley v. Westover’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1978
22 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 Homestead Company v. Valley Railroad · Bull v. Coe · Westerfeld v. New York Life Insurance · Secret Valley Land Co. v. Perry · Huddleston v. Washington
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“settled rule that a plaintiff's right of action must exist when he commences his action, for the rights of the parties are to be judged by the conditions existing at the time the action was begun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lester v. Beer
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.