Widdows v. Koch’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably 39 Cal. 3d 311 - Blank v. Kirwan (1985), McCorkle v. City of Los Angeles (1969)
4 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Parker v. Brown · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · 35 Cal. 2d 729 - Cedars of Lebanon Hospital v. County of Los Angeles
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]here the law prescribes and defines the duties to be performed with such precision and certainty as to leave nothing to the exercise of discretion or judgment, the act is ministerial, but where the act to be done involves the exercise of discretion and judgment it is not to be deemed merely ministerial.' [Citation.]”
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.