Perry v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2010
19 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 875 - Foreman & Clark Corp. v. Fallon · Barbara A. v. John G. · 150 Cal. App. 3d 992 - Kathleen K. v. Robert B. · Commercial Standard Insurance v. Bank of America · 105 Cal. App. 3d 640 - Stephen K. v. RONI L.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Atkinson may have deliberately misrepresented his intentions to Perry in order to persuade her to have an abortion, their procreative decisions were so intensely private that we decline to intervene. Tort liability cannot apply to the choice, however motivated, of whether to conceive or bear a child. [ 240 Cal. Rptr. at 404 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If no cause of action can exist in tort for a fraudulent promise to fulfill the rights, duties and obligations of a marriage relationship, then logically no cause of action can exist for a fraudulent promise by a married man to impregnate a woman not his wife. [ 240 Cal. Rptr. at 405 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he tortious nature of respondent's conduct, coupled with the interest of the state in the prevention and control of contagious and dangerous diseases ...”
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.