5 Cal. 3d 258 - Blair v. Pitchess’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 500 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 547 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Fuentes v. Shevin (1972), 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest (1971)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 500 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Goldberg v. Kelly · Boyd v. United States · Bumper v. North Carolina · Boddie v. Connecticut
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 547 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action to obtain a judgment, restraining and preventing any illegal expenditure of, waste of, or injury to, the estate, funds, or other property of a county, town, city or city and county of the state, may be maintained against any officer thereof, or any agent, or other person, acting in its behalf, either by a citizen resident therein, or by a corporation, who is assessed for and is liable to pay, or, within one year before the commencement of the action, has paid, a tax therein.” Gal.Code Civ. Proc. § 526a.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his court cannot..., in the exercise of its power to interpret, rewrite the statute. If this court were to insert in the statute all or any of the ... qualifying provisions [required to make it constitutional], it would in no sense be interpreting the statute as written, but would be rewriting the statute in accord with the presumed legislative intent. That is a legislative and not a judicial function.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'enabl[ing] a large body of the citizenry to challenge governmental action which would otherwise go unchallenged in the courts because of the standing requirement'”
3 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.