67 Cal. 2d 551 - Reich v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 36 district · 230 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 585 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 574 - Hurtado v. Superior Court (1974), 16 Cal. 3d 313 - Bernhard v. Harrah's Club (1976)
152 federal appellate · 36 district · 230 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · Babcock v. Jackson · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp. · Slater v. Mexican National Railroad
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 585 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Limitations of damages * * # have little or nothing to do with conduct. They are concerned not with how people should behave, but how survivors should be compensated. The state of the place of the wrong has little or no interest in such compensation when none of the parties reside there.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although plaintiffs now reside in California, their residence and domicile at the time of the accident are the relevant residence and domicile. At the time of the accident the plans to change the family domicile were not definite and fixed, and if the choice of law were made to turn on events happening after the accident, forum shopping would be encouraged. (See Cavers, op. cit., supra, p. 151, fn. 16.) Accordingly, plaintiffs' present domicile in California does not give this state any interest in applying its law. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“must search to find the proper law to apply based upon the interests of the litigants and the involved states.”
3 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.