32 Cal. 3d 621 - Serrano v. Unruh’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 392 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 449 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 1122 - Ketchum v. Moses (2001), 22 Cal. 4th 1084 - PLCM Group, Inc. v. Drexler (2000)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 392 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 20 Cal. 3d 25 - Serrano v. Priest · 18 Cal. 3d 728 - Serrano v. Priest · 23 Cal. 3d 917 - Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los Angeles · 106 Cal. App. 3d 988 - Friends Of" B" Street v. City of Hayward · County of Inyo 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 449 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon motion, a court may award attorneys’ fees to a successful party against one or more opposing parties in any action which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest if: (a) a significant benefit, whether pecuniary or nonpecuniary, has been conferred on the general public or a large class of persons, (b) the necessity and financial burden of private enforcement are such as to make the award appropriate, and (c) such fees should not in the interest of justice be paid out of the recovery, if any. With respect to actions involving public entities, this section applies to allowances against, but not in favor of, public entities, and no claim shall be required to be filed therefor.””
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.