Downer v. Lent’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
April 2012
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District (1961), 17 Cal. 3d 465 - Westlake Community Hospital v. Superior Court (1976)
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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.