38 Cal. 3d 454 - Becker v. IRM Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Shump v. First Continental-Robinwood Associates (1994), Considine v. City of Waterbury (2006)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 165 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Rowland v. Christian · Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · 20 Cal. 3d 413 - Barker v. Lull Engineering Co. · Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co. · 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the degree of certainty that the plaintiff suffered injury, the closeness of the connection between the defendant’s conduct and the injury suffered, the moral blame attached to the defendant’s conduct, the policy of preventing future harm, the extent of the burden to the defendant and consequences to the community of imposing a duty to exercise care with resulting liability for breach, and the availability, cost, and prevalence of insurance for the risk involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.