Perry v. Medina’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2015
14 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 3 Cal. 3d 176 - Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. · 12 Cal. 3d 115 - Steed v. Imperial Airlines · Brewer v. Home Owners Auto Finance Co. · 165 Cal. App. 3d 400 - Rubio v. Swiridoff · Evans v. Shanklin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Almost all parents depend on their children for emotional satisfaction and are injured by the death of their 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.