114 Cal. App. 2d 412 - People v. Darby’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein (1958), 55 Cal. 2d 27 - People v. Sweeney (1960)
96 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Winters v. People of State of New York · People v. Newland · 35 Cal. 2d 49 - Lorenson v. Superior Court · People v. Durrant
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales ... is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The instant statutes [§ 1090 et seq.] are concerned with any interest, other than perhaps a remote or minimal interest, which would prevent the officials from exercising absolute loyalty and undivided allegiance to the best interests of the city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All of them combined speak for the sovereign power and all constitute but a single statute.” (P. 422.) Again, quoting from the Darby case, here, as there,”
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.