Wilson v. Galt’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Woolwine v. Furr's, Inc. (1987), Blinzler v. Marriott International, Inc. (1996)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Dillon v. Legg · 12 Cal. 3d 382 - Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc. · Portee v. Jaffee
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The detailed complaint indicates no observance by either parent of a sudden trauma involving (the child). The allegations suggest a gradual occurrence of harm and awareness by the parents of the deterioration not the cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the settlement was "low," the plaintiff will recover less than the noneconomic damages awarded by the jury. If the settlement was "high," the nonsettling defendant will reap the benefit, paying less than their fault-share of the noneconomic damages. This would be inequitable and would provide "little incentive for the injured person to settle with one or fewer than all of the tortfeasors."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he injured person, by settling, would not recover more than his total damages, because each tortfeasor would pay, by settlement or judgment, only his respective share. * * * If the settling tortfeasor paid more in settlement than his apportioned share of the total damages * * * the injured person, without reduction, would retain the benefit of the contractually made bargain.”
1 later decision 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.