Killington, Ltd. v. Lash’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 20 Cal. 4th 509 - Regents of University of California v. Superior Court (1999), State ex rel. Dann v. Taft (2006)
34 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
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Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Nixon · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · United States v. Reynolds
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“brings common law privileges with their established burdens into the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the imbalanced posture and the disadvantaged status of public entities”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“would produce an anomalous and unfair result”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.