21 Cal. App. 2d 513 - Pierce v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 182 - County of Placer v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1958), 59 Cal. App. 3d 959 - Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Arcata National Corp. (1976)
32 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 People v. Weitzel · Ex Parte Sohncke · In Re the Estate of McPhee · 62 Cal. App. 465 - Pierce v. County of Solano · County of Ventura v. Barry
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularly if it be a special act applicable to a particular subject ... on the theory that it is the latest utterance of the legislature.”
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.