Robinson v. Chiarello’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2014
8 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 City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Dillon v. Legg · Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. San Antonio Plumbing Supply Co. · Montgomery v. Kennedy · Farley v. Prudential Insurance Company
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o extend the rule of Dillon to the entire area of bystander injury to a parent, in situations involving improper diagnosis of a child’s ailment, is an extreme broadening of the rule which the California Supreme Court apparently sought to limit, and the extension of this cause of action to the whole field of medical malpractice in diagnosis appears to us an unwarranted and impractical expansion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cavanaugh v. Jones
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.