93 Cal. App. 4th 728 - Blake v. Ecker’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 24 Cal. 4th 83 - Armendariz v. Found. Health Psychcare Servs., Inc. · 15 Cal. 4th 951 - Engalla v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc. · 38 Cal. 3d 913 - Perdue v. Crocker National Bank · 48 Cal. 3d 973 - Newman v. Emerson Radio Corp. · 66 Cal. App. 4th 1199 - 24 Hour Fitness, Inc. v. Superior Court of Sonoma Cty.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But when a court is `merely deciding a legal question, not changing a previously settled rule,' there is no reason not to apply a judicial decision to a pending case. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Courts sometimes make an exception to this general rule when the decision changed a settled rule on which the parties had relied. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract”
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.