21 Cal. 3d 90 - Schmitz v. Younger’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 336 - Raven v. Deukmejian (1990), Amador Valley Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Equalization (1978)
52 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 1 - D'AMICO v. Board of Medical Examiners · 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles · 64 Cal. 2d 529 - Mulkey v. Reitman · Compagna v. Hiatt · Carter v. Seaboard Finance Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“functionally related in furtherance of a common underlying purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“readily understand just what the entire proposition is and not be confused or misled by a maze of unrelated matters, some of which are inadequately explained, purposely distorted, or intentionally concealed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[I]f the broad umbrella of `educational reform' can embrace such diverse and unrelated subjects as are presented here, then the one subject limitation becomes meaningless."”
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.