68 Cal. App. 4th 758 - Levine v. Weis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 39 Cal. 4th 1164 - Wells v. One2One Learning Foundation (2006), 36 Cal. 4th 1284 - State v. Altus Finance, S.A. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 35 Cal. App. 4th 733 - Villa v. McFerren · 30 Cal. App. 4th 713 - Southern California Rapid Transit District v. Superior Court · Community Memorial Hospital v. County of Ventura · Eaglesmith v. Ward · 230 Cal. App. 3d 308 - Santa Monica Rent Control Board v. Bluvshtein
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A county may have the sovereign power to fulfill its duty to guard the public health free from regulations that govern ordinary business. But no governmental agency has the power, sovereign or otherwise, knowingly to present a false claim. The very notion is repugnant to how government should operate by and for the people.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no reason to conclude the Legislature intended that the protection afforded to the public treasury by the act be denied merely because the entity raiding the treasury is a governmental entity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No employer shall discharge ... an employee ... because of lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of the employee or others in disclosing information to a government or law enforcement agency or in furthering a false claims action.”
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.