Riley v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 536 - Eye Dog Foundation v. State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind (1967), 28 Cal. 2d 91 - In Re Porterfield (1946)
2 district · 132 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co. · County of Los Angeles v. Hollywood Cemetery Ass'n · Schaezlein v. Cabaniss · City of La Junta v. Heath
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it may be said that the power of the commissioner to refuse a license if he is not satisfied as to the character of the applicant practically gives him arbitrary power, as he alone can determine whether he is satisfied or not. This, however, is not true. While the commissioner has the power to refuse a license if he is not satisfied as to the character of the applicant, his discretion is not arbitrary. There must exist facts which reasonably justify his conclusion that the applicant is not of good character and reputation. If such facts do not exist, it is his duty to issue the license, and this duty can be enforced by the courts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Now the single primary purpose of the act is to require of real estate brokers and salesmen that they be ‘honest, truthful and of good reputation’. All of its provisions, including the requirement of a license, are but incidental to this single purpose and designed to accomplish it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“honest, truthful and of good reputation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Duffy
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.