36 Cal. 3d 561 - Yost v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 763 - DeVita v. County of Napa (1995), 45 Cal. 3d 491 - Committee of Seven Thousand v. Superior Court (1988)
197 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 18 Cal. 3d 582 - Associated Home Builders of Greater Eastbay, Inc. v. City of Livermore · 24 Cal. 3d 605 - Horn v. County of Ventura · 28 Cal. 3d 511 - Arnel Development Co. v. City of Costa Mesa · Farley v. Healey · 2 Cal. 3d 448 - Wheelright v. County of Marin
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'comprehensive scheme to govern land use planning for the entire coastal zone of California.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When implementing a plan adopted by a superior power, a city acts in an administrative capacity. 'Acts of a local governing body which, in a purely local context, would otherwise be legislative and subject to referendum may, however, become administrative”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not mandate the action to be taken by a local government in implementing local land use controls.”
2 later decisions 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.