17 Cal. 3d 671 - Tripp v. Swoap’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 270 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 390 - Olson v. Cory (1983), 24 Cal. 3d 836 - California Manufacturers Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission (1979)
4 federal appellate · 270 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 Edelman v. Jordan · 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · 4 Cal. 3d 130 - Bixby v. Pierno · Kugler v. Helfant · Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who is entitled to recover damages certain, or capable of being made certain by calculation, and the right to recover which is vested in him upon a particular day, is entitled also to recover interest thereon from that day, except during such time as the debtor is prevented by law, or by the act of the creditor from paying the debt. This section is applicable to recovery of damages and interest from any such debtor, including the state or any county, city, city and county, municipal corporation, public district, public agency, or any political subdivision of the state.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where as here two codes are to be construed, they `must be regarded as blending into each other and forming a single statute.' [Citation.] Accordingly, they `must be read together and so construed as to give effect, when possible, to all the provisions thereof.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he fundamental rule [is] that a court `should ascertain the intent of the Legislature so as to effectuate the purpose of the law.'”
3 later decisions 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.