105 Cal. App. 4th 102 - Punsly v. Ho’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
40 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Troxel v. Granville · 23 Cal. 3d 917 - Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los Angeles · Davey v. Southern Pacific Co. · 34 Cal. 3d 311 - Press v. Lucky Stores, Inc. · 207 Cal. App. 3d 1287 - City of Sacramento v. Drew
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment or order correct in theory will be affirmed, even where the trial court's given reasoning is erroneous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“rests upon the recognition that privately initiated lawsuits are often essential to the effectuation of the fundamental public policies embodied in constitutional or statutory provisions, and that, without some mechanism authorizing the award of attorney fees, private actions to enforce such important public policies will as a practical matter frequently be infeasible. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`In short, section 1021.5 acts as an incentive for the pursuit of public interest-related litigation that might otherwise have been too costly to bring. [Citations.]'”
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.