Lopez v. Josephson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Seltzer v. Morton (2007), Sunburst School District No. 2 v. Texaco, Inc. (2007)
58 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 Putro v. Baker · Durden v. Hydro Flame Corp. · Schmieding v. Schmieding · Armstrong v. Gondeiro · Simmons Oil Corp. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“act[s] arbitrarily without conscientious judgment or exceed[s] the bounds of reason.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In essence, bottom line is this is a small parent with a small child on a sick child visit, no violation of the standard of care medically. Plaintiff got in all of its evidence and arguments. Plaintiff didn’t violate the Court’s rules, nor did the Defendant. The fact is the evidence shows there’s no one to blame or at fault for the diagnosis not occurring earlier. No standard of care, medical or parental, was violated. In fact, I think, if on that third visit Dr. Johnson had been there and they had gone to see Dr. Johnson, she would have discovered the same things and made the same conclusions that Dr. Kelker did at that point in time. All in all, it was a proper trial. It was a fair trial. Neither party was prevented from having a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Johnson
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.