Williams v. Hook’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Mendillo v. Board of Education (1998), Bowen v. Kil-Kare, Inc. (1992)
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Goss v. Lopez · Gomez v. Perez · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc. · Commonwealth v. McGrogan · Ferriter v. Daniel O'Connell's Sons, 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“minor child may maintain a cause of action for the permanent loss of parental consortium through its guardian ad litem or next of friend when a parent is negligently injured by a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Love“dynamic concept whose rules arise from the application of reason to the changing conditions of society, and it is imbued with flexibility and capacity for growth and adaptation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Love
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.