88 Cal. App. 3d 706 - Rossiter v. Benoit’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 37 Cal. App. 4th 855 - Lafayette Morehouse, Inc. v. Chronicle Publishing Co. (1995), 232 Cal. App. 3d 553 - San Bernardino County Department of Public Social Services v. Servando M. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 99 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 16 Cal. 3d 834 - Williams v. Horvath · Russell M. Smith v. John J. Cremins, Jr., John F. Mahon, Jr. · 109 Cal. App. 2d 803 - Utz v. Aureguy · Michael Arthur Donovan v. Earl Reinbold and Harley Askew, Michael Arthur Donovan v. Earl Reinbold and Harley Askew · Polite v. Diehl
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no element of agreement enters (and one) which the law creates in the absence of an agreement.”
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.