4 Cal. 4th 1187 - Rubin v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 18 district · 337 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 510 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 20 Cal. 4th 163 - Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. (1999), 19 Cal. 4th 1106 - Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity (1999)
27 federal appellate · 18 district · 337 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · 2 Cal. 4th 1254 - Bank of the West v. Superior Court · 50 Cal. 3d 205 - Silberg v. Anderson · 46 Cal. 3d 287 - Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies · 35 Cal. 3d 197 - Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp.
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 510 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the policies underlying section 47(b) are sufficiently strong to support an absolute privilege, the resulting immunity should not evaporate merely because the plaintiff discovers a conveniently different label for pleading what is in substance an identical grievance arising from identical conduct as that protected by section 47(b).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t least since then-Justice Traynor's opinion in Albertson v. Raboff (1956) 46 Cal.2d 375 [, 295 P.2d 405 ], California courts have given the privilege an expansive reach.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“anything that can properly be called a business practice and that at the same time is forbidden by law.”
5 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.