People v. Willert’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1978
9 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 Ex Parte Daniels · Hurst v. City of Burlingame · Civic Center Ass'n of Los Angeles v. Railroad Commission · In Re Cardinal · Atlas Mixed Mortar Co. v. City of Burbank
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is nevertheless true that the organic law is subject to and controlled by conflicting state legislative action unless the subject matter is a `municipal affair' as those words are used in sections 6 and 8, article XI.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“telephone service or other means of communication”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“subject to and controlled by general laws.”
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.