172 Cal. App. 3d 384 - Taylor v. Buff’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2016
6 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 69 Cal. 2d 782 - Johnson v. State of California · 70 Cal. App. 3d 773 - Mann v. State of California · 8 Cal. 3d 479 - County of Sacramento v. Superior Court · 168 Cal. App. 3d 1174 - Zeilman v. County of Kern · 65 Cal. App. 3d 484 - Herman Slapin v. Los Angeles International Airport
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 820.2 Discretionary Acts Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury resulting from his act or omission where the act or omission was the result of the exercise of the discretion vested in him, whether or not such discretion be abused.”
2 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.