62 Cal. App. 320 - Bank v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Butterworth v. Boyd (1938), West Coast Advertising Co. v. City & County of San Francisco (1939)
27 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 German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. McGuire · Green v. Frazier · Jones v. City of Portland · Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n v. Mayor of New York
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was to enable municipalities to conduct their own business and control their own affairs, to the fullest possible extent in their own way. It was enacted upon the principle that the municipality itself knew better what it wanted and needed than the state at large, and to give that municipality the exclusive privilege and right to enact direct legislation which would carry out and satisfy its wants and needs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butterworth v. Boyd“It shall be competent in any charter framed under the authority of this section to provide that the municipality governed thereunder may make and enforce all laws and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, subject only to the restrictions and limitations provided in their several charters, and in respect to other matters they shall be subject to general laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butterworth v. Boyd
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.