Bale v. Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2022
4 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · Mower v. Inhabitants of Leicester · Mildred M. Gossler & A. v. Manchester · Nelson v. Maine Turnpike Authority
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not hold the purse strings. We have no power to levy taxes or otherwise provide funds to meet liability which would result from a decision abrogating the immunity doctrine. The Legislature has the power, the capacity and the administrative machinery for conducting investigations and for giving consideration to several plans which could be advanced to solve the problem with relatively minor impact upon the municipal treasury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““application of the so-called doctrine has been incorrect and its application cannot withstand the test of logic.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We may agree that sovereign immunity from tort liability has served its usefulness and ought to be destroyed.””
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.