6 Cal. 3d 361 - Solgaard v. Guy F. Atkinson Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 833 - People v. Crandell (1988), 20 Cal. 3d 199 - Walters v. Sloan (1977)
8 federal appellate · 151 state decisions — followed in 10 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · Krauth v. Israel Geller and Buckingham Homes, Inc. · 69 Cal. 2d 217 - De Cruz v. Reid
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that persons such as firefighters, whose occupation by its very nature exposes them to particular risks of harm, "cannot complain of negligence in the creation of the very occasion for [their] engagement" (citation omitted). Since it is the fireman's business to deal with fire, "a paid fireman has no cause of action against one whose passive negligence caused the fire in which he was injured." (Citations omitted). It is not, however, a doctor's business to cope with steep, slippery embankments. Plaintiff agreed only to furnish medical aid to injured employees; he did not further agree too expose himself to risks and hazards not necessarily inherent in the performance of his services. ( 99 Cal. Rptr. at 33-34 , 491 P. 2d at 825-26 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'persons injured in the course of undertaking a necessary rescue may, absent rash or reckless conduct on their part, recover'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`he cannot complain of negligence in the creation of the very occasion for his engagement.'”
2 later decisions 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.