58 Cal. 2d 683 - Self v. Self’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo (1973), 12 Cal. 3d 382 - Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1974)
2 federal appellate · 114 state decisions — followed in 17 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 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens · Thompson v. Thompson · Klein v. Klein · 33 Cal. 2d 315 - Zaragosa v. Craven · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TJhe contention that the rule is necessary to maintain conjugal harmony * * ⅜ is illogical and unsound. It would not appear that such assumed conjugal harmony is any more endangered by tort actions than by property actions — yet the latter are permitted. For these reasons alone the old common law rule should be abandoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the general rule is and should be that, in the absence of statute or some compelling reason of public policy, where there is negligence proximately causing an injury, there should be liability” . ..;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boblitz v. Boblitz
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.