48 Cal. App. 753 - Aitken v. Roche’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 29 Cal. 2d 848 - Kern v. City of Long Beach (1947), Yeazell v. Copins (1965)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 Hanscom v. Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co. · O'Dea v. Cook · United States v. Tyler · Walton v. Cotton · Van Harlingen v. Doyle
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is correctly stated that the right to pension is a vested one, and that it enters into the contract of employment when a man enters the police department”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGlynn v. State
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.