Caudle v. Mendel’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2025
20 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 Chizmar v. MacKie · 2 Cal. App. 4th 521 - Adams v. Superior Court · Kollodge v. State · Bidna v. Rosen · Lowe v. Lowe
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistent with and appropriate to some enforceable cause of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a willful act in the use of the process not proper in the regular conduct of the proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court must presume all factual allegations of the complaint to be true and [make] all reasonable inferences ... in favor of the non-moving party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foondle v. O'Brien
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.