20 Cal. 3d 560 - Holt v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 34 Cal. 3d 658 - Legislature v. Deukmejian (1983), 42 Cal. 4th 730 - City of Stockton v. Superior Court (2007)
66 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 11 Cal. 3d 113 - Minsky v. City of Los Angeles · 10 Cal. 3d 939 - People v. Rosoto · 61 Cal. 2d 199 - Flora Crane Service, Inc. v. Ross · 42 Cal. 2d 719 - Ellsworth v. Ellsworth · Dynair Electronics, Inc. v. Video Cable, Inc.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an arrestee who seeks in good faith to specifically recover property taken from him at the time of his arrest is exempt from the claim filing provisions of the Government Code, even though some or all of the property may have been dissipated and respondent may be compelled to respond in damages in lieu of property.”
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.