71 Cal. App. 4th 1149 - Logacz v. Limansky’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 8 Cal. 4th 548 - Soule v. General Motors Corp. · Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. · 12 Cal. App. 4th 715 - Shell Oil Co. v. Winterthur Swiss Insurance
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any one or all of these factors was a cause of Cynthia's death, [defendant's] negligence could also have been a cause of her death acting in combination with them. Multiple or concurring causes of Cynthia's death do not preclude recovery by plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e must assume the jury might have believed [W & C's] evidence and, if properly instructed, might have decided in [W & C's] favor. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Instructional error in a civil case is prejudicial `where it seems probable' that the error `prejudicially affected the verdict.' [Citations.]”
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.