Sierra v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Tucker v. Ra Hanson Company Inc Lockheed-California Company Division of Lockheed Corporation Hk Mk (1992), J.R. Hale Contracting Co. v. Union Pacific Railroad (2007)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, Inc. · Franco v. Federal Building Service, Inc. · Perea v. Baca · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Southern California Petroleum Corp. · City of Artesia v. Carter
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provision in a construction contract that requires one party to the contract to indemnify, hold harmless, insure or defend the other party to the contract ... against liability ... arising out of bodily injury to persons or damage to property caused by or resulting from, in whole or in part, the negligence, act or omission of the indemnitee, ... is void, unenforceable and against the public policy of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which makes void and unenforceable any agreement which purports to indemnify an indemnitee for injuries or death arising from the . . . concurrent negligence of the indemnitee means only that the indemnitee cannot contract away liability for his own percentage of negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“voids agreements which attempt to indemnify the indemnitee for liability resulting, in whole or in part , from the indemnitee's negligence”
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.