Clark v. City of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 1033 · 1981
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Petzoldt v. Commissioner (1989), United States v. Foster (1983)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Dombrowski v. Pfister
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) made by a regularly conducted business activity, (2) kept in the 'regular course' of that business, (3) 'the regular practice of that business to make the memorandum,' (4) and made by a person with knowledge or from information transmitted by a person with knowledge.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“acting routinely, under a duty of accuracy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the [document]....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.