Belth v. Garamendi’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 34 Cal. 4th 553 - Graham v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. (2005), 28 Cal. 4th 419 - Filarsky v. Superior Court (2002)
42 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 23 Cal. 3d 917 - Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los Angeles · 32 Cal. 3d 211 - Commodore Home Systems, Inc. v. Superior Court · 32 Cal. 3d 668 - Folsom v. Butte County Assn. of Governments · 3 Cal. App. 3d 476 - People v. Superior Court · 24 Cal. 3d 428 - People v. Superior Court (Douglass)
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff is considered the prevailing party if his lawsuit motivated defendants to provide the primary relief sought or activated them to modify their behavior [citation]....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“results in defendant releasing a copy of a previously withheld document.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“should be construed under the guidance of the case law on the similar language found in Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5. [4] This case law”
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.