124 Cal. App. 2d 95 - Norman v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 1064 - Burgess v. Superior Court (1992), 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer (1967)
9 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Fuentes v. Tucker · Scott v. McPheeters · 82 Cal. App. 610 - Treat v. Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. · 60 Cal. App. 2d 746 - Secrest v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · Evans v. Shanklin
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A child conceived, but not yet born, is to be deemed an existing person, so far as may be necessary for its interests in the event of its subsequent birth.”
2 later decisions 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.