21 Cal. 2d 237 - In Re Portnoy’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably In Re Hubbard (1964), 4 Cal. 4th 893 - Sherwin-Williams Co. v. City of Los Angeles (1993)
2 federal appellate · 91 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 19 Cal. 2d 488 - In Re Bell · Ex Parte Daniels · 20 Cal. 2d 366 - Pipoly v. Benson · In Re Hoffman · City of Pasadena v. Charleville
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The ordinance, like the statute, contains as an integral part of the description of the prohibited acts the phrase”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]nsofar as the provisions of Ordinance No. 248 purport to prohibit acts which already are made criminal by the Penal Code, it is clear that they exceed the proper limits of supplementary regulation and must be held invalid because in conflict with the statutes which they duplicate”
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.