Powers v. Sissoev’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Amodio v. Cunningham (1980), 19 Cal. 3d 59 - Krouse v. Graham (1977)
2 district · 44 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 Dillon v. Legg · Mercer v. Perez · 7 Cal. 3d 889 - Capelouto v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · MacIsaac v. Pozzo · Jansen v. Children's Hospital Medical Center
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether plaintiff was located near the scene of the accident as contrasted with one who was a distance away from it. (2) Whether the shock resulted from a direct emotional impact upon plaintiff from the sensory and contemporaneous observance of the accident, as contrasted with learning of the accident from others after its occurrence. (3) Whether plaintiff and the victim were closely related, as contrasted with an absence of any relationship or the presence of only a distant relationship.”
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.