Bakke v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2017
1 federal appellate · 9 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 250 - Albers v. County of Los Angeles · Bacich v. Board of Control · Merrill v. Merrill · State v. Abbott · Irish v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n act or omission is said to be the proximate cause of an injury when the injury would not have happened 'but for' the act or omission and reasonable persons would regard this act or omission as a cause and attach responsibility to it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] corollary of this statement is, of course, that if the injury would have happened in exactly the same manner in the absence of the act,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is clear that if the State’s 1964 logging operation was a proximate cause of the Bakkes’ injury, the State has deprived them of the economic benefits of ownership even though it may not have intended to do so, and even though its 1964 logging operation did not directly and immediately affect the Bakkes’ land. First, it is not disputed that the logging operation was for a public purpose. Second, the Bakkes suffered injury and thus were denied the economic benefits of ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.