21 Cal. 4th 310 - Agnew v. State Board of Equalization’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 160 state decisions

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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “( Yamaha Corp. of America v. State Bd. of Equalization (1998) 19 Cal.4th 1 , 10-11, 78 Cal.Rptr.2d 1 , 960 P.2d 1031 .)”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mendoza v. Fonseca McElroy Grinding Co. · 34 Cal. 4th 942 - City of Long Beach v. Department of Industrial Relations

2. “whenever possible, significance must be given to every word in pursuing the legislative purpose, and the court should avoid a construction that makes some words surplusage.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. City & Cnty. of S.F. v. Post · 28 Cal. 4th 543 - People v. Rodriguez

3. “Even apart from these statutory limits, it is well established that the rulemaking power of an administrative agency does not permit the agency to exceed the scope of authority conferred on the agency by the Legislature. [Citation.] 'A ministerial officer may not ... under the guise of a rule or regulation vary or enlarge the terms of a legislative enactment or compel that to be done which lies without the scope of the statute and which cannot be said to be reasonably necessary or appropriate to subserving or promoting the interests and purposes of the statute.' [Citation.] And, a regulation which impairs the scope of a statute must be declared void. [Citations.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 183 - GMRI, Inc. v. Cal. Dep't of Tax & Fee Admin.