Amodio v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 district · 521 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 527 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority (1988), Rowe v. Godou (1988)
6 district · 521 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 · Sheets v. Teddy's Frosted Foods, Inc. · Sinn v. Burd · 19 Cal. 3d 564 - Justus v. Atchison · 19 Cal. 3d 59 - Krouse v. Graham
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 527 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll facts well pleaded and those facts necessarily implied from the allegations are taken as admitted.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“there can be no recovery for nervous shock and mental anguish caused by the sight of injury or threatened harm to another.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“construed in a manner most favorable to the pleader.”
10 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.