Bacon v. Wahrhaftig’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 43 Cal. 2d 615 - County of Santa Clara v. Hayes Co. (1954), 125 Cal. App. 2d 827 - Schessler v. Keck (1954)
38 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 21 Cal. 2d 636 - Panos v. Great Western Packing Co. · 27 Cal. 2d 840 - Lord v. Garland · 27 Cal. 2d 131 - Sears v. Rule · California Trust Co. v. Cohn · La Laguna Ranch Co. v. Dodge
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a demurrer for uncertainty is not intended to reach the failure to incorporate sufficient facts in the pleading, but is directed at the uncertainty existing in the allegations actually made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The seeking of different kinds of relief does not establish different causes of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“will be treated as surplusage and disregarded”
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.