8 Cal. 4th 975 - Rappleyea v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 170 Cal. App. 4th 229 - Shaw v. County of Santa Cruz (2008), 126 Cal. App. 4th 43 - City of Santa Monica v. Stewart (2005)
174 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 11 Cal. 3d 1 - D'AMICO v. Board of Medical Examiners · Olivera v. Grace · 1 Cal. 3d 467 - Kulchar v. Kulchar · 63 Cal. 2d 849 - Weitz v. Yankosky · 38 Cal. 3d 227 - Elston v. City of Turlock
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requiring or permitting exceptional treatment of parties who represent themselves would lead to a quagmire in the trial courts, and would be unfair to the other parties to litigation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“' [Citation.] 'Because the law favors disposing of cases on their merits,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect.”
2 later decisions 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.