249 Cal. App. 2d 281 - Sava v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 69 Cal. 2d 782 - Johnson v. State of California (1968), 12 Cal. 3d 710 - Sullivan v. County of Los Angeles (1974)
76 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 Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · Gregoire v. Biddle · 55 Cal. 2d 224 - Lipman v. Brisbane Elementary School District
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case ... Dr. Fuller had already exercised discretion by agreeing to analyze the possible ingested plant substance to determine its toxicity.... [E]xercise-of-discretion had ended at that point and thereafter the inquiry would be limited to whether there had been an exercise of due care under a duty assumed.... [O]nce the determination has been made that a service will be furnished and the service is undertaken, then public policy demands (except when the Legislature specifically decrees otherwise) that government be held to the same standard of care the law requires of its private citizens in the performance of duties imposed by law or assumed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Except for an examination or diagnosis for the purpose of treatment, neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for injury caused by the failure to make a physical or mental examination, or to make an adequate physical or mental examination, of any person for the purpose of determining whether such person has a disease or physical or mental condition that would constitute a hazard to the health or safety of himself or others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“catchall section broadly encompassing every judgment exercised at every level.... [That,] to borrow the language of Justice Frankfurter ... [would be] to make the act `self-defeating by covertly imbedding the casuistries' of some of the pre- Muskopf cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.