Medina v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Celaya v. Hall (2004), Delta Automatic Systems, Inc. v. Bingham (1998)
4 district · 35 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 State v. Rowell · Grondahl v. Bulluck · Roberts v. Southwest Community Health Services · Kern Ex Rel. Kern v. St. Joseph Hospital, Inc. · Konradi v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because it is unjust-to exonerate a business from responsibility for injuries occurring in the course of its characteristic activities, an employee’s scope of employment is determined by ascertaining whether the risk involved was typical or broadly incidental to the enterprise undertaken by the employer.’ Where the employee’s conduct has substantially deviated from his or her duties, it is unjust to hold the employer liable. Thus, it is necessary to determine the main purpose of injury-producing activity: If it was the pursuit of the employee’s personal ends, the employer is not liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. It was something fairly and naturally incidental to the employer’s business assigned to the employee, and 2. It was done while the employee was engaged in the employer’s business with the view of furthering the employer’s interest and did not arise entirely from some external, independent and personal motive on the part of the employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on duty and doing her employer's business on her way to and from work because she was in her patrol unit, with her radio on, with badge and gun, and ready to respond to calls, which, after all, is the business of the Sheriff's Department”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lessard v. Coronado
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.