49 Cal. App. 4th 345 - Silva v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Ghazaryan v. Diva Limousine, Ltd. (2008), 54 Cal. App. 4th 1117 - Lopez v. University Partners (1997)
27 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 Graham v. Connor · 12 Cal. 3d 447 - City of San Jose v. Superior Court · 29 Cal. 3d 462 - Richmond v. Dart Industries, Inc. · Mendoza v. Block · 18 Cal. App. 4th 644 - Caro v. Procter & Gamble Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would depend upon the particular conduct in which the suspect was engaged and the facts apparent to the handler before the police dog was employed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial courts properly and `routinely decide[ ] the issue of class certification on demurrer, sustaining demurrers without leave to amend where it is clear that there is no reasonable possibility that the plaintiffs could establish a community of interest among the potential class members and that individual issues predominate over common questions of law and fact'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a minority subclass comprised of all individuals belonging to racial minorities who had suffered such attacks.”
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.