McCroskey v. Gustafson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1984
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Flast v. Cohen · Wimberly v. Ettenberg · 7 Cal. 3d 150 - Harman v. City and County of San Francisco · Terry v. Bender · Dodge v. Department of Social Services
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) That the municipality itself has the right and power to bring the action.... Also, ... he must allege that he has made a demand upon the municipality, which demand the municipality has refused.... and, “(2) That the taxpayer is bringing the action in a case in which the municipal corporation has the discretion to bring the action but has refused to do so because of fraud, collusion, bad faith, or ultra vires acts by the corporation, ... or in which the municipality has a specifically enjoined, non-discretionary duty to bring the action but has failed to do so.””
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.