Ruiz v. Varan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. (1997), United States v. Jarvis (2007)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 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 Shaeffer v. Kelton · Duke City Lumber Company, Inc. v. Terrel · Wirth v. Commercial Resources, Inc. · Madrid v. University of California · Farmers Gin Company v. Ward
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.
“damages awarded for the infraction of a legal right, where the extent of the loss is not shown, or the right is not dependent upon loss or damage, as in the case of rights ... to have one’s material property undisturbed by direct invasion. The award of nominal damages is made as a judicial declaration that the plaintiffs right has been violated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Faber v. King · Sanchez v. Clayton“by instructing the jury to determine what was the value of the property immediately before the occurrence and immediately after the occurrence. The difference between these two figures is the legal measure of damages to real property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“nothing in our case law precludes substituting a `lost use' measure for the standard `before and after' measure set out in UJI 13-1819 where such a measure represents fair and reasonable compensation.”
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.