Pleasant v. Celli’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 11 Cal. 4th 583 - Adams v. Paul (1995), 37 Cal. App. 4th 1397 - Marshall v. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (1995)
4 district · 37 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 Dillon v. Legg · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda · 6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not mean to suggest that emotional distress damages can never be recovered in legal malpractice actions. It is possible to envision cases in which the attorney’s conduct—while not necessarily intentional or in bad faith—is so reckless and the resulting damage is so foreseeable that imposition of liability is proper.”
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.