46 Cal. 3d 267 - Elden v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa (1989), 26 Cal. 4th 465 - Merrill v. Navegar, Inc. (2001)
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 194 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Dillon v. Legg · 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 19 Cal. 3d 59 - Krouse v. Graham · 12 Cal. 3d 382 - Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc.
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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my view, recovery should not be cut off on arbitrary, definitional grounds but on functional grounds that correspond with real loss. As the commentators have suggested, the problem should be solved by the application of the principles of tort, not by the creation of exceptions to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]resumably, a person who would not otherwise choose to marry would not be persuaded to do so in order to assure his or her legal standing in a future personal injury action should that person have the misfortune of witnessing the serious injury of his or her spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunphy v. Gregor“the state has a strong interest in the marriage relationship; to the extent unmarried cohabitants are granted the same rights as married persons, the state's interest in promoting marriage is inhibited.”
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.