Sooy v. Peter’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2025
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 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · 35 Cal. 3d 197 - Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp. · 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy · 37 Cal. 3d 813 - Brandt v. Superior Court · 35 Cal. 3d 498 - Gray v. Don Miller & Associates, 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so-called 'third party tort exception' to the rule that parties bear their own attorney fees is not really an 'exception' at all but an application of the usual measure of tort damages. ... In such cases there is no recovery of attorney fees qua attorney fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lederer v. Schneider
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.