Steinberg v. Coda Roberson Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Fortier v. Dona Anna Plaza Partners (1984), Stang v. Hertz Corporation (1972)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · 59 Cal. 2d 21 - Sabella v. Wisler · Carter v. Yardley & Co. · 55 Cal. 2d 857 - Stewart v. Cox · Spence v. Three Rivers Builders & Masonry Supply, 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a matter of policy and involves the balancing of various factors, among which are [1] the extent to which the transaction was intended to affect the plaintiff, [2] the foreseeability of harm to him, [3] the degree of certainty that he suffered injury, [4] the closeness of the connection between the defendant’s conduct and the injury suffered, and [5] the policy of preventing future harm.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he great weight of authority no longer recognizes privity of contract as having a place in tort law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holland v. Lawless
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.