Brown v. Ruffenach’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 480 - People Ex Rel. Younger v. County of El Dorado (1971), 39 Cal. 4th 1164 - Wells v. One2One Learning Foundation (2006)
50 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 Mayrhofer v. Board of Education of San Diego · People ex rel. Graves v. McFadden · 33 Cal. App. 142 - County of Sacramento v. Chambers · 42 Cal. App. 602 - Dillwood v. Riecks · Reuter v. Bd. of Supervisors of San Mateo
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is seriously urged . . . that the rendering of legal services by a county counsel to the Public Administrator . . . constitutes a violation of the prohibition against the practice of law by a corporation. . . . The county is no more practicing law than . . . when the Public Defender represents private persons in criminal cases. The . . . Public Defender, of course, practice (s) law — it is one of the qualifications of their office — but it is they who are practicing law, not the county”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The County Counsel ... shall also act as attorney for the Public Administrator in the matter of all estates....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“primarily a public officer performing essentially a governmental function”
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.