Cuadra v. Millan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 40 Cal. 4th 1094 - Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (2007), Soremekun v. Thrifty Payless, Inc. (2007)
3 federal appellate · 115 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 48 Cal. 3d 805 - Calfarm Insurance v. Deukmejian · 14 Cal. 4th 557 - Tidewater Marine Western, Inc. v. Bradshaw · 12 Cal. 3d 410 - Elkins v. Derby · People ex rel. Lungren v. Superior Court
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A cause of action for unpaid wages accrues when the wages first become legally due, i.e., on the regular payday for the pay period in which the employee performed the work; when the work is continuing and the employee is therefore paid periodically (e.g., weekly or monthly) a separate and distinct cause of action accrues on each payday, triggering on each occasion the running of a new period of limitations. And for statute of limitations purposes an action for unpaid wages is deemed to have commenced, like all civil actions, on the date on which the employee files the complaint. It follows that such an action is timely as to all paydays falling within the relevant limitations period. For the same reason, in calculating the amount of unpaid wages due in such an action the court will count back from the filing of the complaint to the beginning of the limitations period — e.g., for three years on a statutory liability — and will award all unpaid wages earned during that period.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has two principal options. The employee may seek judicial relief by filing an ordinary civil action against the employer [or] seek administrative relief by filing a wage claim with the commissioner [using a] hearing procedure ... designed to provide a speedy, informal, and affordable method of resolving wage claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) The Labor Commissioner shall have the authority to investigate employee complaints.[ 8 ] The Labor Commissioner may provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation properly before the division or the Labor Commissioner, including orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, and shall determine all matters arising under his or her jurisdiction. . . . Within 30 days of the filing of the complaint, the Labor Commissioner shall notify the parties as to whether a hearing will be held, whether action will be taken in accordance with Section 98.3 [action for collection of wages], or whether no further action will be taken on the complaint. If the determination is made by the Labor Commissioner to hold a hearing, the hearing shall be held within 90 days of the date of that determination. However, the Labor Commissioner may postpone or grant additional time before setting a hearing if the Labor Commissioner finds that it would lead to an equitable and just resolution of the dispute. “It is the intent of the Legislature that hearings held pursuant to this section be conducted in an informal setting preserving the right of the parties.[ 9 ] hi ... m “(g) All hearings conducted pursuant to this chapter are governed by the division and by the rules of practice and procedure adopted by the Labor Commissioner.” 10”
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.