Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 district · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably El Chico Corp. v. Poole (1987), Ontiveros v. Borak (1983)
10 district · 163 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Linkletter v. Walker · 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education · 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 · Rappaport v. Nichols
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In light of the use of automobiles and the increasing frequency of accidents involving drunk drivers, we hold that the consequences of serving liquor to an intoxicated person whom the server knows or could have known is driving a car is reasonably foreseeable."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is within the inherent power of a state's highest court to give a decision prospective or retrospective application without offending [federal] constitutional principles.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a violation of the Liquor Control Act ... for a person to sell or serve alcoholic beverages to or to procure or aid in the procurement of alcoholic beverages for an intoxicated person if the person selling, serving, procuring or aiding in procurement, knows or has reason to know that he is selling, serving, procuring or aiding in procurement of alcoholic beverages for a person that is intoxicated.”
2 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.