70 Cal. App. 3d 144 - Borba v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Carlock v. Pillsbury Co. (1989), 185 Cal. App. 3d 211 - Sumitomo Bank v. Taurus Developers, Inc. (1986)
2 district · 26 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 62 Cal. 2d 154 - Quintal v. Laurel Grove Hospital · The Edward Barron Estate Co. v. the Woodruff Co. · Hale v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · 120 Cal. App. 32 - Eade v. Reich · Langley v. Rodriguez
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a party holds himself out to be specially qualified and the other party is so situated that he may reasonably rely upon the former's superior knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent some special relationship between the parties, a private person is not entitled to rely on the opinion of another private person concerning the future decisions of a public body.”
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.