Dodds v. Bucknum’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably 2 Cal. 3d 1 - Helfend v. Southern California Rapid Transit District (1970), Yarrington v. Thornburg (1964)
43 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 Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Starley · Laurenzi v. Vranizan · Severson v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance · 58 Cal. 2d 916 - Goncalves v. Los Banos Mining Co. · Parsons v. Fuller
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ “. . . It would indeed be strange if a wrongdoer who has foresight enough to cover himself with insurance, and thus in fact cause the payment of any doctor and hospital bills which his wrongful act may make necessary, should be penalized, whereas the person who does not similarly provide a fund for such contingencies should obtain the benefit if, perchance, at the time of the injury or thereafter he has the cash with which to pay and does in fact pay such expenses. . .” ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lock v. Sterner
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.