Dunphy v. Gregor’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Clohessy v. Bachelor (1996), Blinzler v. Marriott International, Inc. (1996)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 114 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 Dillon v. Legg · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · Sinn v. Burd · Paugh v. Hanks
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he duration of the relationship, the degree of mutual dependence, the extent of common contributions to a life together, the extent and quality of shared experience, and ... "whether the plaintiff and the injured person were members of the same household, their emotional reliance on each other, the particulars of their day to day relationship, and the manner in which they related to each other in attending to life's mundane requirements."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) [T]he death or serious physical injury of another caused by defendant's negligence; (2) a marital or intimate, familial relationship between plaintiff and the injured person; (3) observation of the death or injury at the scene of the accident; and (4) resulting severe emotional distress. [ Id. at 101 , 417 A. 2d 521 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`involves identifying, weighing, and balancing several factors the relationship of the parties, the nature of the attendant risk, the opportunity and ability to exercise care, and the public interest in the proposed solution.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.