When a breach of duty has caused no appreciable detriment to the party affected, he may yet recover nominal damages.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3360
General Provisions
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 171 Cal. App. 4th 1305 - Troyk v. Farmers Group, Inc. (2009)
Most recently applied in Kristin Perry v. Dennis Hollingsworth (November 2021)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.