Morales v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · 23 Cal. 2d 288 - Crane v. Smith · 116 Cal. App. 2d 310 - Ellis v. D'Angelo · Gonzales v. Davis · 163 Cal. App. 2d 280 - Perrotti v. Sampson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are satisfied from our own common knowledge of the mental development of 4-year-old children that it is proper to hold that they have not at that age developed the mental capacity for foreseeing the possibilities of their inadvertent conduct which would rationally support a finding that they were negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In support of this holding the court cited Gonzales v. Davis, 197 Cal. 256 [ 240 P. 16 ], which involved a 5-year-old child.”
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.