21 Cal. App. 4th 836 - Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Jett v. Penner (2006), 32 Cal. 4th 1234 - State v. Superior Court (2004)
2 federal appellate · 16 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 46 Cal. 3d 1092 - Leal v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for Unification of World Christianity · 16 Cal. 3d 834 - Williams v. Horvath · AARTS Productions, Inc. v. Crocker National Bank · 49 Cal. 3d 699 - Phillips v. Desert Hospital District · 168 Cal. App. 3d 1174 - Zeilman v. County of Kern
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Liability under section 845.6 is limited to serious and obvious medical conditions requiring immediate care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury proximately caused by the failure of the employee to furnish or obtain medical care for a prisoner in his custody; but, ... a public employee .. is liable if the employee knows or has reason to know that the prisoner is in need of immediate medical care and he fails to take reasonable action to summon such medical care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Failure of a practitioner to prescribe or provide necessary medication or treatment to one he or she has been summoned to assist is ... medical malpractice and clearly, as a matter of the plain meaning of the statutory language, cannot be characterized as a failure to summon medical care.”
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.