Pietrelli v. Peacock’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 272 - Horwich v. Superior Court (1999), 26 Cal. App. 4th 1194 - Lloyd's Underwriters v. Craig & Rush, Inc. (1994)
25 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 17 Cal. 3d 699 - Madden v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 40 Cal. 3d 734 - Victoria v. Superior Court · Doyle v. Giuliucci · Scott v. McPheeters · 124 Cal. App. 2d 95 - Norman v. Murphy
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons born or unborn, on behalf of whom I have the power to contract”
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.