32 Cal. 2d 430 - Garrison v. Rourke’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Mercer v. Perez (1968), 18 Cal. 3d 901 - Morris v. County of Marin (1977)
99 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 Brydonjack v. State Bar · 29 Cal. 2d 258 - Pulcifer v. County of Alameda · Harrington v. Superior Court · Holmes v. McColgan · Russell v. McDowell
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not read into the statute unless that result is expressly provided or otherwise clearly intended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the courts are subject to reasonable statutory regulation of procedure and other matters, they will maintain their constitutional powers in order effectively to function as a separate department of government. [Citations.] Consequently an intent to defeat the exercise of the court's jurisdiction will not be supplied by implication. To what extent the Legislature may constitutionally enact regulations affecting procedure which will defeat or interfere with the exercise of jurisdiction or of the judicial power [citations], is not necessary to determine in the absence, as here, of provisions clearly indicating that intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court shall continue in special session to hear and determine all issues arising in contested elections. After hearing the proofs and allegations of the parties and within ten days after the submission thereof the court shall file its findings of fact and conclusions of law, and immediately thereafter shall pronounce judgment in the premises, either confirming or annulling and setting aside the election. The judgment shall be entered immediately thereafter.”
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.