71 Cal. 2d 276 - Burke v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 19 Cal. 3d 970 - Bailey v. Superior Court (1977), 42 Cal. 4th 531 - Doe v. City of Los Angeles (2007)
75 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 56 Cal. 2d 355 - Greyhound Corp. v. Superior Court · Oceanside Union School District v. Superior Court · 56 Cal. 2d 407 - West Pico Furniture Co. v. Superior Court · Carlson v. Superior Court · 26 Cal. 2d 149 - Rannard v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The discovery laws in California are designed to expedite the trial of civil matters by (1) enabling counsel to more quickly and thoroughly obtain evidence and evidentiary leads ... and (2) enabling counsel to `set at rest' issues that are not genuinely disputed. [¶] `[T]o say that "contentions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are not a proper subject of interrogatories is to subvert the whole theory of the [discovery] rules....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“used to clarify the contentions of the parties ... are an adjunct to the pleadings”
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.