Jenks v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 1112 - Zelig v. County of Los Angeles (2002), Bertrand v. Board of County Commissioners of Park County (1994)
4 district · 29 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 People v. District Court, Second Judicial District · 36 Cal. 3d 799 - Peterson v. San Francisco Community College District · Evans v. Board of County Commissioners · Bober v. New Mexico State Fair · 11 Cal. 3d 469 - Hayes v. State of California
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] physical condition of a facility or the use thereof which constitutes an unreasonable risk to the health or safety of the public, which is known to exist or which in the exercise of reasonable care should have been known to exist and which condition is proximately caused by the negligent act or omission of the public entity in constructing or maintaining such facility.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(injury stemming from the use of a dangerous or defective physical condition of the building itself might include injury resulting from, for example, using a faulty elevator or falling down defective stairs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“linchpin of our 'use' inquiry ... is that 'the statute refers to an injury arising from the state of the building itself or the use of a state of the building'”
3 later decisions 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.