Bossert v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2015
12 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 20 Cal. 2d 713 - Wennerholm v. Stanford University School of Medicine · 93 Cal. App. 2d 678 - Neal v. Bank of America · 97 Cal. App. 2d 407 - Slavin v. City of Glendale · Pike v. Archibald · 77 Cal. App. 2d 383 - Huffaker v. Decker
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A cause of action against an employee of a district, county . . . for damages resulting from any negligence upon the part of such employee while acting within the course and scope of such employment shall be barred unless a written claim for such damages has been presented to the employing district, county ... in the manner and within the period prescribed by law as a condition to maintaining an action therefor against such governmental entity. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. Sprague
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.