36 Cal. 2d 722 - Samuelson v. Public Utilities Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 2 Cal. App. 4th 1499 - Squaw Valley Ski Corp. v. Superior Court (1992), 54 Cal. 2d 419 - Richfield Oil Corp. v. Public Utilities Commission (1960)
6 federal appellate · 24 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 Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad Commission · Stephenson v. Binford · Frost v. Railroad Commission of State of California · Walther v. Southern Pacific Co. · Associated Pipe Line Co. v. Railroad Commission
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the law applicable to common carriers is peculiarly rigorous, ... it ought not to be extended to persons who have not expressly assumed that character, or by their conduct and from the nature of their business justified the belief on the part of the public that they intended to assume it.' [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he thus offers to carry.”
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.