48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 592 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 709 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall (1994), 7 Cal. 4th 380 - People v. Ewoldt (1994)
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 592 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Rowland v. Christian · Dillon v. Legg · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California
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 709 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]lose relatives suffer serious, even debilitating, emotional reactions to the injury, death, serious illness, and evident suffering of loved ones. These reactions occur regardless of the cause of the loved one's illness, injury, or death.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage“the right of persons, whose only injury is emotional distress, to recover damages when that distress is caused by knowledge of the injury to a third person caused by the defendant's negligence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are adequate, or if they should be refined to create greater certainty in this area of the law.”
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.