167 Cal. App. 3d 1195 - Blecker v. Wolbart’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2008
20 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 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 26 Cal. 3d 588 - Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories · 21 Cal. 3d 322 - Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Nest-Kart · 26 Cal. 3d 744 - People Ex Rel. Department of Transportation v. Superior Court
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law regards the act of the original wrongdoer as a proximate cause of the damages flowing from the subsequent negligent medical treatment and holds [the original tortfeasor] liable therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is closely and reasonably associated with the immediate consequences of the [original tortfeasor's] act and forms a normal part of its aftermath.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it matters not whether the tortfeasors acted in concert to create a single injury, or successively, in creating distinct and divisible injury”
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.