Yniguez’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Ruiz v. Hull (1998), California Teachers Association v. State Board of Education, and Its Members
4 district · 5 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s)peech in any language is still speech, and the decision to speak in another language is a decision involving speech alone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“all government officials and employees during the performance of government business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(2) As the official language of this State, the English language is the language of the ballot, the public schools and all government functions and actions. (3) (a) This Article applies to: (i) the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government (ii) all political subdivisions, departments, agencies, organizations, and instrumentalities of this State, including local governments and municipalities, (iii) all statutes, ordinances, rules, orders, programs and policies. (iv) all government officials and employees during the performance of government business. (b) As used in this Article, the phrase, "This State and all political subdivisions of this State" shall include every entity, person, action or item described in this Section, as appropriate to the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ruiz v. Hull
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.