Walker v. Munro’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 237 - State of California v. Superior Court (1974), 67 Cal. 2d 536 - Eye Dog Foundation v. State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind (1967)
43 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Abelleira v. District Court of Appeal · 23 Cal. 2d 719 - Maguire v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society · Covert v. State Board of Equalization · United States v. Superior Court
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he declaratory relief provisions do not independently empower the courts to stop or interfere with administrative proceedings by declaratory decree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If there is a jurisdictional defect not apparent on the face of the complaint, or if the relief sought is dependent upon facts which are shown by uncontradicted affidavits not to exist, or if it appears that in the particular case the court desires to exercise the discretion invested in it by section 1061, Code of Civil Procedure, there is no reason why the case should be prolonged and a summary judgment not granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Were there no administrative proceedings pending, there can be no question but that plaintiffs would be entitled to bring a declaratory relief action to test the applicability of the statute and the regulations involved. But there are such proceedings pending and plaintiffs have tied those proceedings into this action for the purpose of short-cutting those proceedings.”
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.