18 Cal. 3d 322 - Fields v. Eu’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 836 - California Manufacturers Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission (1979), 18 Cal. 3d 646 - Larcher v. Wanless (1976)
85 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 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest · 42 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Western Air Lines, Inc. · Dickey v. Raisin Proration Zone No. 1 · 12 Cal. 3d 335 - Knoll v. Davidson · 6 Cal. 2d 537 - Kaiser v. Hopkins
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a cardinal rule of construction that words or phrases are not to be viewed in isolation; instead, each is to be read in the context of the other provisions of the Constitution bearing on the same subject. [Citation.] The goal, of course, is to harmonize all related provisions if it is reasonably possible to do so without distorting their apparent meaning, and in so doing to give effect to the scheme as a whole. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“instead, each is to be read in the context of the other provisions of the Constitution bearing on the same subject. [Citation.] The goal, of course, is to harmonize all related provisions if it is reasonably possible to do so without distorting their apparent meaning, and in so doing to give effect to the scheme as a whole. [Citations.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the vacancy arises at any time in an election year, the office will not be placed on the ballot until the next election year, i.e., two years later,”
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.