7 Cal. 3d 232 - Collins v. Rocha’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 district · 139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 447 - City of San Jose v. Superior Court (1974), 53 Cal. 4th 1004 - Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2012)
3 district · 139 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 4 Cal. 3d 800 - Vasquez v. Superior Court · 2 Cal. 3d 493 - Alcorn v. Anbro Engineering, Inc. · 51 Cal. 2d 409 - Drennan v. Star Paving Co. · Halverson v. Convenient Food Mart, Inc.
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the issues which may be jointly tried, when compared with those requiring separate adjudication, are so numerous or substantial that the maintenance of a class action would be advantageous to the judicial process and to the litigants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person, ... directly or indirectly, shall influence, persuade, or engage any person to change ... from any place outside [California] to any place within the state ... for the purpose of working in any branch of labor, through or by means of knowingly false representations, whether spoken [or] written ... concerning either: [¶] (a) The kind, character, or existence of such work; [¶] (b) The length of time such work will last, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impracticality of bringing an individual action for comparatively small potential recovery [is] a consideration in favor of permitting a class action.... [T]he amount prayed for ... does not per se render a class action inappropriate.”
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.