41 Cal. 3d 883 - Young v. Haines’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1988), 48 Cal. 3d 805 - Calfarm Insurance v. Deukmejian (1989)
5 federal appellate · 166 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 Reed v. Reed · 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · 35 Cal. 3d 131 - Carlos v. Superior Court · 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo · 19 Cal. 3d 564 - Justus v. Atchison
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By defining the actions of adults and minors to accrue differently, section 340.5 violates the minors’ right to the law’s equal protection. The adults’ cause of action may accrue either from the “date of injury” or from the time “the plaintiff discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the injury,” whichever occurs earlier. The minors’ cause of action, by contrast, accrues from the date of the “wrongful act” rather than the injury, and the statute contains no comparable provision permitting accrual when the plaintiff discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An action by or on behalf of a minor for personal injuries sustained before or in the course of his or her birth must be commenced within six years after the date of birth, and the time the minor is under any disability mentioned in Section 352 [providing for tolling during minority or incapacity] shall not be excluded in computing the time limited for the commencement of the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an interrelated legislative scheme enacted to deal specifically with all medical malpractice claims.”
2 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.