O'NEIL v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 50 Cal. 3d 205 - Silberg v. Anderson (1990), 39 Cal. 4th 299 - Flatley v. Mauro (2006)
37 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 46 Cal. 2d 375 - Albertson v. Raboff · 28 Cal. 3d 739 - People v. Chadd · 22 Cal. App. 3d 626 - Kachig v. Boothe · 30 Cal. App. 3d 818 - Bradley v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 60 Cal. App. 3d 573 - Lerette v. Dean Witter Organization, Inc.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court interpreted existing California precedent and the Restatement categories as sketching the outermost boundaries for application of the privilege ( id., at pp. 824-825), and concluded: `[A]bsolute privilege in judicial proceedings is afforded only if the following conditions have been met: the publication (1) was made in a judicial proceeding; (2) had some connection or logical relation to the action; (3) was made to achieve the objects of the litigation; and (4) involved litigants or other participants authorized by law.' ( Id., at p. 825.) The third condition was further refined by the court, which underlined `the requirement that [the publication] be made in furtherance of the litigation and to promote the interest of justice.' ( Id., at p. 826.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to achieve the object of the [malpractice] litigation, namely, to settle it.”
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.