Nagy v. Nagy’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 12 Cal. 4th 631 - Lazar v. Superior Court (1996), Miller v. Miller (1998)
42 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 Crisci v. Security Insurance · 35 Cal. 3d 197 - Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp. · 2 Cal. 3d 493 - Alcorn v. Anbro Engineering, Inc. · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 47 Cal. 3d 863 - Sheldon Appel Co. v. Albert & Oliker
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“developing a close relationship with a child misrepresented to be [your own] and performing parental acts is not a `damage' which should be compensable under the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the policy of liberal construction of the pleadings ... will not ordinarily be invoked to sustain a pleading defective in any material respect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“developed] a very close and intimate relationship with [the child] and did and performed all acts that a father would towards a son,”
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.