74 Cal. App. 4th 1303 - Brown v. Boren’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
71 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 51 Cal. 3d 1130 - In Re Marriage of Arceneaux · 43 Cal. 3d 1281 - Maria P. v. Riles · Mattco Forge, Inc. v. Arthur Young & Co. · Yeap v. Leake · 49 Cal. App. 4th 1645 - Stevens v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a firmly entrenched principle of appellate practice that litigants must adhere to the theory on which a case was tried.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we have discretion to consider a new theory on appeal when it is purely a matter of applying the law to undisputed fact.”
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.