Fife v. Astenius’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
August 2007
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dillon v. Legg · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · 19 Cal. 3d 59 - Krouse v. Graham · Archibald v. Braverman
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.
“the Fifes, even if considered present at the scene, cannot recover because they did not know Meghan was involved in the accident at the time they heard the collision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficient to establish the requirement that she personally and contemporaneously perceived the injury-producing event and its traumatic consequences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]ecovery is precluded when a plaintiff perceives an accident but is unaware of injury to a family member until minutes or even seconds later.”
2 later decisions 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.