Fernandez v. Walgreen Hastings Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Apodaca v. AAA Gas Co. (2003), Lozoya v. Sanchez (2003)
8 district · 53 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 Dillon v. Legg · Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · 39 Cal. 3d 159 - Ochoa v. Superior Court · Mendillo v. Board of Education
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the victim was a minor; (2) the plaintiff was a familial care-taker, such as a parent or grandparent, who lived with and cared for the child for a significant period of time prior to the injury or death; (3) the child was seriously physically injured or killed; and (4) the plaintiff suffered emotional injury as a result of the loss of the child’s companionship, society, comfort, aid, and protection.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“NIED is an extremely narrow tort that compensates a bystander who has suffered severe emotional shock as a result of witnessing a sudden, traumatic event that causes serious injury or, death to a family member.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“close familial relationship with the victim.”
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.