Reagan v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Mendillo v. Board of Education (1998), Bowen v. Kil-Kare, Inc. (1992)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc. · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc. · 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The plaintiff was located near the scene of the accident, as contrasted with one who was a distance away from it; (2) The plaintiff suffered shock as a result of a direct emotional impact upon the plaintiff from a sensory and contemporaneous observance of the accident, as contrasted with learning of the accident from others after its occurrence; and (3) The plaintiff and the victim were closely related, as contrasted with an absence of any relationship or the presence of only a distant relationship.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cavanaugh v. Jones · Boyles v. Kerr“[t]here is no principled reason to accord the parental-child relationship second class status ***. The obvious and unquestionable significance of the parent-child relationship compels our recognition of a cause of action for loss of parental consortium.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[w]hile all family members enjoy a mutual interest in consortium, the parent-child relationship is undeniably unique and the wellspring from which other family relationships derive.'”
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.