Taylor v. Pole’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Rose v. Melody Lane (1952), 58 Cal. 2d 292 - Di Mare v. Cresci (1962)
8 federal appellate · 24 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 Dimick v. Schiedt · Sloane v. Southern California Railway Co. · 53 Cal. App. 166 - County of Los Angeles v. Rindge Co. · Lee v. S. Pac. R.R. Co. · 75 Cal. App. 516 - Eldridge v. Clark & Henery Construction Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . definite disturbances of the nervous system caused by mental shock, excitement, and so on, are classed as physical injuries and are recognized elements of damage. (Dryden v. Continental Baking Co., 11 Cal.2d 33, 39 [ 77 P.2d 833 ] ; Sloane v. Southern Cal. Ry. Co., 111 Cal. 668 [ 44 P. 320 , 32 L.R.A. 193 ] ; 8 Cal.Jur., p. 772.) ””
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.