Bruce v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 district · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 21 Cal. 3d 102 - Younger v. Superior Court (1978), 29 Cal. 3d 814 - People v. Davis (1981)
3 district · 172 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 In Re Cregler · Skibs A/S Jolund v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club v. Ohio Casualty Insurance · Dare v. Board of Medical Examiners · State Ex Rel. Youmans v. Owens
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a settled principle of statutory interpretation that language of a statute should not be given a literal meaning if doing so would result in absurd consequences which the Legislature did not intend. [Citations.] ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court may not insert into a statute qualifying provisions not intended by the Legislature and may not rewrite a statute to conform to an assumed legislative intent not apparent. ( Bruce v. Gregory (1967) 65 Cal.2d 666, 674 [ 56 Cal. Rptr. 265 , 423 P.2d 193 ]....)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the writ has accomplished the purpose of the mandamus proceedings and the petition should be dismissed as moot. [Citations.]”
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.