10 Cal. App. 463 - Cary v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1963
7 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 City of Crawfordsville v. Braden · Hyatt v. Williams · Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Jacksonville Electric Light Co. v. City of Jacksonville · State ex rel. City of Bethany v. Allen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of determining the necessity for the expenditure and the propriety of submitting it to the electors and the particular phraseology in which it shall be expressed is cast upon the trustees subject to a reasonable and practicable regard for the right and privilege of the electors to be informed as to the purposes and cost of the proposed improvement that they may exercise at the polls an intelligent and discriminating judgment as to their own interests and the public welfare.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to acquire, own, construct, maintain and operate street-railways, telephone and telegraph lines, gas and other works for light and heat”
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.