Rael v. Cadena’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Halberstam v. Welch (1983), Petro-Tech, Inc. v. The Western Company Of North America (1987)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Getz v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of US · Duke v. Feldman · 163 Cal. App. 2d 424 - Ayer v. Robinson · 326 So. 2d 654 - Guilbeau v. Guilbeau
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or harm resulting to a third person from the tortious conduct of another ... [can be imposed upon a party who] (b) knows that the other's conduct constitutes a breach of duty and gives substantial assistance or encouragement to the other so to conduct himself”
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.