Unzueta v. Ocean View School District’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Paredes-Urrestarazu v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1994), 134 Cal. App. 4th 1076 - MacIsaac v. Waste Management Collection & Recycling, Inc. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 127 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 28 Cal. 3d 692 - California Teachers Ass'n v. San Diego Community College District · 52 Cal. 3d 894 - People v. Pieters · Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. v. Missouri
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each time the judiciary utilizes the 'absurd result' rule, a little piece is stripped from the written rule of law and confidence in legislative enactments is lessened.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“should be used most sparingly by the judiciary and only in extreme cases else we violate the separation of powers principle of government. [Citation.] We do not sit as a 'super-legislature.' [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The language of Penal Code section 1000.5 is extraordinary and compelling. It demonstrates the breadth of the Legislature's underlying remedial purpose. 'We determine that the use of the words”
2 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.