DeBry v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Bailey v. Bayles (2002), State v. Martinez-Castellanos (2018)
1 district · 32 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 Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · Yee v. City of Escondido · Hagen Utah · Izumi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. U. S. Philips Corp. · Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-settled that an appellate court may affirm a trial court's ruling on any proper grounds, even though the trial court relied on some other ground.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Practically speaking, only government can enact binding, enforceable building standards designed to protect the entire community. Although private groups may ostensibly perform somewhat similar functions, there is a qualitative difference between government's actions and those of private groups. The issuance of permits is integral to assuring compliance with building code standards. Licensing to insure compliance with those standards is not a function that can be privately performed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]ssues not raised in the court of appeals may not be raised on certiorari unless the issue arose for the first time out of the court of appeals' decision.”
2 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.