53 Cal. 3d 315 - Woods v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 336 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 352 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 383 - Norgart v. Upjohn Co. (1999), 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley (1996)
7 federal appellate · 336 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 Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · 46 Cal. 3d 287 - Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies · 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand
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 352 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ords must be construed in context, and statutes must be harmonized, both internally and with each other, to the extent possible.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]onsiderations of fairness and public policy may require that a decision be given only prospective application. * * * Particular considerations relevant to the retroactivity determination include the reasonableness of the parties' reliance on the former rule, the nature of the change as substantive or procedural, retroactivity’s effect on the administration of justice, and the purposes to be served by the new rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o action based upon the health care provider's professional negligence may be commenced unless the defendant has been given at least 90 days' prior notice of the intention to commence the action”
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.