Ginns v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
551 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 551 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably In Re Tobacco II Cases (2009), Driscoll v. City of Los Angeles (1967)
551 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 Moran v. Board of Medical Examiners · Estate of Hanley v. Hanley · Dillon v. Board of Pension Commissioners · Hollywood Circle, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control · 54 Cal. 2d 33 - McDowell & Craig v. City of Santa Fe Springs
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 551 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an opinion is not authority for a proposition not therein considered”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rules of law relating to limitations of actions are applicable to mandamus proceedings. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“within 30 days after the last day on which reconsideration can be ordered.”
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.