Nelson v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2013
1 district · 17 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 Libbee v. Permanente Clinic · 148 Cal. App. 2d 447 - Dillon v. Wallace · Webb v. Snow
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question of damages is moot since the jury found by general verdict for each defendant, which under the instructions of the court showed that neither defendant was negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“damages are not awarded for 'loss of the unborn child' itself”
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.