Fuller v. Pacheco’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2021
10 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 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Delbrel v. Doenges Bros. Ford, Inc. · Wofford v. Eastern State Hospital · 37 Ill. 2d 596 - Calvetti v. Seipp · Green Bay Packaging v. Preferred Packaging, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a defendant's conduct creates a foreseeable zone of risk, the law generally will recognize a duty placed upon defendant either to lessen the risk or see that sufficient precautions are taken to protect others from the harm that the risk poses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“creates a generalized and foreseeable risk of harming others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We will not assume facts not in the record.”
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.