152 Cal. App. 2d 543 - Munns v. Stenman’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 110 - Selby Realty Co. v. City of San Buenaventura (1973), 49 Cal. 3d 432 - Common Cause v. Board of Supervisors (1989)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Abelleira v. District Court of Appeal · Rose v. State of California · Nichols v. Mitchell · 44 Cal. 2d 90 - Temescal Water Co. v. Department of Public Works
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“”... While it is generally true that such an application must conform to an ordinance passed while action upon the same is pending (Brougher v. Board of Public Works, 205 Cal. 426 [271P. 487]), that rule seems not applicable to a situation in which the permit clearly should have been issued before amendment to the law. ...” (P.551.)”
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.