27 Cal. 2d 104 - Phillips v. City of Pasadena’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District (1961), 6 Cal. 3d 920 - Nestle v. City of Santa Monica (1972)
3 federal appellate · 82 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 Natural Soda Products Co. v. City of Los Angeles · Kafka v. Bozio · Strong v. Sullivan · Hassell v. City & County of San Francisco · Knight v. City 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for which the person injured may bring successive actions for damages until the nuisance is abated, even though an action based on the original wrong may be barred.”
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.