Doe v. Arguelles’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2013
18 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 69 Cal. 2d 782 - Johnson v. State of California · Cairl v. State · Payton v. United States · Semler v. Psychiatric Institute · Little v. Utah State Division of Family Services
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] decision or action implementing a preexisting policy is operational in nature and is undeserving of protection under the discretionary function exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“proximately caused by a negligent act or omission of an employee committed within the scope of his [or her] employment... .”
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.