33 Cal. App. 2d 416 - Brown v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably Crestview Cemetery Ass'n v. Dieden (1960), 112 Cal. App. 2d 719 - Collins v. City & County of San Francisco (1952)
37 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 Zottman v. City & County of San Francisco · Hopping v. Council of City of Richmond · 89 Cal. App. 47 - Noble v. City of Palo Alto · Mann v. Tracy · Logan v. Shields
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The initiative and referendum powers of the people are hereby further reserved to the electors of each county, city and county, city and town of the State to be exercised under such procedure as may be provided by law.”
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.