Preston v. Hubbell’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant (1972), 21 Cal. 3d 869 - Lemons v. Regents of University of California (1978)
31 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 Crabbe v. Mammoth Channel Gold Mining Co. · O'Connor v. Mennie · Valdez v. Percy · McKeon v. Lissner · 106 Cal. App. 649 - Brooks v. City of Monterey
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.
““It is the general rule that in cases of emergency, or unanticipated conditions where some immediate action is found necessary for the preservation of the life or health of a patient and it is impractical to first obtain consent to the operation or treatment which the surgeon deems to be immediately necessary, the surgeon is justified in extending the operation to remove and overcome such conditions without the express consent of the patient thereto.” Preston, 87 Cal. App. 2d at 57-58 , 196 P.2d at 115 .”
1 later decision 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.