18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 551 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 686 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten (1987), 31 Cal. 3d 637 - In Re Marriage of Flaherty (1982)
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 551 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77C (§ 3 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77D (§ 4 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Dillon v. Legg · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · Glanzer v. . Shepard · 49 Cal. 2d 647 - Biakanja v. Irving
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 686 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would inject undesirable self-protective reservations into the attorney's counseling role. The attorney's preoccupation or concern with the possibility of claims based on mere negligence (as distinct from fraud or malice) by any with whom his client might deal `would prevent him from devoting his entire energies to his client's interests.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the foreseeability of harm to the plaintiff, the degree of certainty that the plaintiff suffered injury, the closeness of the connection between the defendant's conduct and the injury suffered, the moral blame attached to the defendant's conduct, the policy of preventing future harm, the extent of the burden to the defendant and consequences to the community of imposing a duty to exercise care with resulting liability for breach, and the availability, cost, and prevalence of insurance for the risk involved.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Louis G. Navellier, an Individual and Trustee and Shareholder of the Navellier Series Fund (Recently Renamed the Mfs Series Trust) Rosemary J. McLachlan Martin Billett William Rautenberg Faith C. Rautenberg Mark Schulz Gail Sullivan Thomas Sullivan v. Kenneth Sletten, an Individual and Trustee of the Navellier Series Fund (Recently Renamed the Mfs Series Trust) Donald Simon, Louis G. Navellier, an Individual and Trustee and Shareholder of the Navellier Series Fund (Recently Renamed the Mfs Series Trust) Rosemary J. McLachlan Martin Billett William Rautenberg Faith C. Rautenberg Mark Schulz Gail Sullivan Thomas Sullivan v. Kenneth Sletten, an Individual and Trustee of the Navellier Series Fund (Recently Renamed the Mfs Series Trust) Donald Simon, and Arnold Scott Roy Adams Massachusetts Financial Services, Rosemary J. McLachlan Louis G. Navellier, an Individual and Trustee and Shareholder of the Navellier Series Fund (Recently Renamed the Mfs Series Trust) Martin Billett William Rautenberg Faith C. Rautenberg Mark Schulz Gail Sullivan Thomas Sullivan v. Kenneth Sletten, an Individual and Trustee of the Navellier Series Fund (Recently Renamed the Mfs Series Trust), and Donald Simon · Lopes v. Vieira“when one party to a transaction has sole knowledge or access to material facts and knows that such facts are not known to or reasonably discoverable by the other party.”
4 later decisions 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.