65 Cal. App. 4th 488 - Cochran v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Pardi v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (2004), 145 Cal. App. 4th 790 - Delfino v. Agilent Technologies, Inc. (2006)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 2 Cal. 3d 493 - Alcorn v. Anbro Engineering, Inc. · 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 30 Cal. 3d 721 - Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson · 54 Cal. 3d 723 - Hendy v. Losse · 38 Cal. 3d 892 - Sanchez-Corea v. Bank of America
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hostile unpleasantries which are intended to sting whoever sits at the delivery end,”
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.