Changaris v. Marvel’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably 148 Cal. App. 3d 512 - Canavin v. Pacific Southwest Airlines (1983), 259 Cal. App. 2d 757 - Petersen v. City of Vallejo (1968)
36 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 60 Cal. 2d 690 - Cross v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. · Bartolozzi v. Mallegni · Howard v. Kelly · 140 Cal. App. 2d 536 - Perkins v. Robertson
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.
““We think that although a single action must be brought by all interested parties, nevertheless each member of the group bringing the action proves his own right to take as an heir, that is to say, his right to join in the action; and then proves his own damages as such heir. The issues between each member of the group and the tortfeasor defendant are separate from the issues presented by the other members of the group insofar as their right to sue and the amount of their loss be concerned. Although if the plaintiffs in a death action are successful, a judgment is rendered in a lump sum, that sum is arrived at simply by adding together the awards made to each of the claimants.'” (Emphasis added) 41 Cal.Rptr. at 776-777.”
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.