Burger v. Pond’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 3 Cal. 4th 370 - Bily v. Arthur Young & Co. (1992), 231 Cal. App. 3d 692 - Skarbrevik v. Cohen, England & Whitfield (1991)
27 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 · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 49 Cal. 2d 647 - Biakanja v. Irving · 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy · 48 Cal. 3d 583 - Marlene F. v. Affiliated Psychiatric Medical Clinic, 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`an undue burden on the profession' [citation] and a diminution in the quality of legal services received by the client. [Citation.]”
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.