32 Cal. 3d 426 - Brown v. Bleiberg’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1988), 21 Cal. 4th 383 - Norgart v. Upjohn Co. (1999)
16 federal appellate · 132 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 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · Stationers Corp. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. · 18 Cal. 3d 93 - Sanchez v. South Hoover Hospital · 10 Cal. 3d 874 - Whitfield v. Roth · 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant's fraud in concealing a cause of action against him tolls the applicable statute of limitations, but only for that period during which the claim is undiscovered by plaintiff or until such time as plaintiff, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, should have discovered it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he question of when there has been a belated discovery of the cause of action, especially in malpractice cases, is essentially a question of fact ... [and] [i]t is only where reasonable minds can draw but one conclusion from the evidence that the question becomes a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiff discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the facts constituting the wrongful act or omission....”
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.