148 Cal. App. 2d 447 - Dillon v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 799 - Peterson v. San Francisco Community College District (1984), Markley v. Beagle (1967)
35 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 18 Cal. 2d 798 - Hatfield v. Levy Brothers · Showalter v. Western Pacific Railroad · 151 Ohio St. 136 - Maggio v. City of Cleveland · Lane v. Pacific Greyhound Lines · Harris v. Joffe
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On strictly logical grounds it is, perhaps, difficult to say why a plaintiff should not be allowed to show every fact connected with his situation in life. One can conceive of innumerable factors in the life of every individual, and of his relation to others, which might be thought to have some relevance to the extent of worry which would result in case of an injury to him. But logical relevancy is not the sole test of the admissibility of evidence. Certain kinds of evidence, although material to the issue, are excluded because of their tendency to mislead, confuse or prejudice the jury. .. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Peterson
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.