White v. Valenta’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 131 - Carlos v. Superior Court (1983), 33 Cal. 3d 766 - Welfare Rights Organization v. Crisan (1983)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 United States ex rel. Attorney General of the United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co. · Bodinson Manufacturing Co. v. California Employment Commission · Davis v. Hearst · 38 Cal. 2d 330 - State Rubbish Collectors Ass'n v. Siliznoff · 52 Cal. 2d 536 - MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“charges any person with crime, ... [or] tends directly to injure him in respect to his office, profession, trade or business, either by imputing to him general disqualifications in those respects which the office or other occupation peculiarly requires, or by imputing something with reference to his office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its profits; ...”
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.