Phelps v. Stostad’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 26 Cal. 4th 735 - Renee J. v. Superior Court (2001), 20 Cal. 4th 23 - Delaney v. Baker (1999)
3 federal appellate · 157 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 5 Cal. 4th 382 - DuBois v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board · 15 Cal. 3d 162 - Quinn v. State of California · 3 Cal. 4th 797 - Bank of San Pedro v. Superior Court · Kelley v. Bredelis · 17 Cal. App. 4th 308 - Crampton v. Takegoshi
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`When used in a statute [words] must be construed in context, keeping in mind the nature and obvious purpose of the statute where they appear.' [Citations.] Moreover, the various parts of a statutory enactment must be harmonized by considering the particular clause or section in the context of the statutory framework as a whole.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Additionally, however, we must consider the [statutory language] in the context of the entire statute [citation] and the statutory scheme of which it is a part.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule giving priority to the claim for litigation expenses and attorney fees was created for cases like the present one in which the amount of the judgment is insufficient to pay reasonable litigation expenses and attorney fees and also fully reimburse the employer. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.