57 Cal. App. 504 - Boyd v. Pendegast’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Steen v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners (1945), La Prade v. Department of Water & Power (1945)
45 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 Ex parte Hennen · Reagan v. United States · Conner v. . the Mayor, C. of New York · Matter of Carter · Speed v. Common Council
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appointments to hold during the pleasure of the appointing power may be terminated at any time and without notice; appointments to continue 'during good behavior,' or for a fixed term of years, cannot be terminated except for cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When such a hearing has been had, the decision, by the very terms of the charter, is placed beyond the reach of any review by the courts.”
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.