Crowe v. Boyle’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 757 - White v. Davis (1975), 5 Cal. 3d 258 - Blair v. Pitchess (1971)
2 federal appellate · 64 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 United States v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad · Edwards' Lessee v. Darby · Chase v. Trout · Hopping v. Council of City of Richmond · Hellman v. Shoulters
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this state we have been very liberal in the application of the rule permitting taxpayers to bring a suit to prevent the illegal conduct of city officials, and no showing of special damage to the particular taxpayer has been held necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All presumptions of [] law are in favor of the good faith of public officials. ...”
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.