6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 14 district · 546 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 640 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand (1971), 14 Cal. 3d 502 - Davies v. Krasna (1975)
24 federal appellate · 14 district · 546 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Desist v. United States · 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · 1 Cal. 3d 586 - United States Liability Insurance v. Haidinger-Hayes, Inc. · Heyer v. Flaig
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 640 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'necessary that all or even the greater part of the damages have to occur before the cause of action arises.'”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The elements of a cause of action in tort for professional negligence are: (1) the duty of the professional to use such skill, prudence, and diligence as other members of his profession commonly possess and exercise; (2) a breach of that duty; (3) a proximate causal connection between the negligent conduct and the resulting injury; and (4) actual loss or damage resulting from the professional's negligence. [Citations.]'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the present case, the factual issue as to accrual of damage was not resolved... . Yet we hold today that the cause of action in tort does not accrue until the client both sustains damage, and discovers, or should discover, his cause of action. ... The proper answer to the question when plaintiff sustained actual damage before the filing of plaintiff's suit must await either a trial of the cause or a motion for summary judgment with declarations and points and authorities directed to that issue.”
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.