Bess v. Park’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 53 Cal. 2d 674 - Abbott v. City of Los Angeles (1960), Meyer v. Sprint Spectrum L.P. (2009)
48 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 23 Cal. 2d 719 - Maguire v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society · 27 Cal. 2d 840 - Lord v. Garland · 28 Cal. 2d 790 - California Physicians' Service v. Garrison · 19 Cal. 2d 543 - Ermolieff v. R. K. O. Radio Pictures, Inc. · 48 Cal. App. 2d 746 - Monahan v. Department of Water & Power
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true, as contended by appellant, that the courts will not attempt to compel a public official to exercise his judicial discretion in any particular manner; nevertheless, where the law imposes upon him specific duties and he either refuses to perform those duties, or where his refusal is based upon an erroneous conclusion of his legal duties, or where the right of the individual is so fixed that the refusal of the official to act amounts to a clear abuse of discretion, such errors will be corrected in a proper judicial proceeding.””
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.