31 Cal. 3d 220 - Turpin v. Sortini’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 231 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa (1989), Payton v. Abbott Labs (1982)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 231 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Crisci v. Security Insurance · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · 6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen
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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the duty of the professional to use such skill, prudence, and diligence as other members of his profession commonly possess and exercise; (2) a breach of that duty; (3) a proximate causal connection between the negligent conduct and the resulting injury; and (4) actual loss or damage resulting from the professional's negligence.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t would be illogical and anomalous to permit only parents, and not the child, to recover for the cost of the child’s own medical care. If such a distinction were established, the afflicted child’s receipt of necessary medical expenses might well depend on the wholly fortuitous circumstance of whether the parents are available to sue and recover such damages or whether the medical expenses are incurred at a time when the parents remain legally responsible for providing such care.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]ith respect to the child’s claim for pain and suffering or other general damages—recovery should be denied because (1) it is simply impossible to determine in any rational or reasoned fashion whether the plaintiff has in fact suffered an injury in being born impaired rather than not being born, and (2) even if it were possible to overcome the first hurdle, it would be impossible to assess general damages in any fair, nonspeculative manner.”
5 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.