Parsons v. Smithey’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Huston v. Konieczny (1990), McFarlin v. Hall (1980)
35 state decisions — followed in 10 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 116 Cal. App. 2d 310 - Ellis v. D'Angelo · Tucker v. Collar · Heth v. Del Webb's Highway Inn · Townsend v. State · State v. Fierro
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.
““Here, we find that all of the evidence offered by the plaintiffs, either admitted or excluded, was not sufficient to send the case to the jury on the issue of whether Mr. and Mrs. Smithey should have had knowledge of Michael’s propensity to commit the type of act complained of. Under no view of the evidence is it proper to conclude that Mr. and Mrs. Smithey should have reasonably foreseen that Michael had a disposition to perform such a violent act.” 109 Ariz. 49, 54 , 504 P.2d 1272, 1277 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A parent is under a duty to exercise reasonable care so to control his minor child as to prevent it from intentionally harming others or from so conducting itself as to create an unreasonable risk of bodily harm to them, if the parent “(a) knows or has reason to know that he has the ability to control his child, and “(b) knows or should know of the necessity and opportunity for exercising such control.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lanterman v. Wilson
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.