Brousseau v. Jarrett’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 606 - International Engine Parts, Inc. v. Feddersen & Co. (1995), 144 Cal. App. 3d 222 - Kiseskey v. Carpenters' Trust for Southern California (1983)
32 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 Dillon v. Legg · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy · 15 Cal. 3d 40 - Weirum v. RKO General, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the second count's conclusory characterization of defendant's conduct as intentional, willful and fraudulent is a patently insufficient statement of `oppression, fraud, or malice, ...' within the meaning of section 3294. [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.