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2002

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
4
states following
December 2020
most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 873 So. 2d 1182 - Clay Elec. Co-Op., Inc. v. Johnson (2003), 39 So. 3d 1216 - Curd v. Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC (2010)

36 state decisions

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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 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Paugh v. Hanks · Montinieri v. Southern New England Telephone, Co. · Quinn v. Phipps · Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A.

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] relation of trust and confidence exists between the parties (that is to say, where confidence is reposed by one party and a trust accepted by the other, or where confidence has been acquired and abused), that is sufficient as a predicate for relief. The origin of the confidence is immaterial.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “before a plaintiff can recover damages for emotional distress caused by the negligence of another, the emotional distress suffered must flow from physical injuries the plaintiff sustained in an impact.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “The elements of a claim for breach of fiduciary duty are: the existence of a fiduciary duty, and the breach of that duty such that it is the proximate cause of the plaintiff's damages.”
    4 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.