Estes v. Talbot’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 7 Cal. 3d 616 - Unruh v. Truck Insurance Exchange · State ex rel. Rich v. Larson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary ... to reach the important constitutional questions of just which or whether all State officers are subject to impeachment.... The fact is that under no reasonable construction of the statutes in question could this action be maintained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It simply is not compatible with the rule of law that a legal proceeding may be maintained without an allegation of a cause of action that is cognizable at law.”
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.