18 Cal. 4th 640 - Reno v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 316 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 436 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 29 Cal. 4th 82 - Navellier v. Sletten (2002), 19 Cal. 4th 1106 - Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity (1999)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 316 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Fisher v. San Pedro Peninsula Hospital · 12 Cal. 4th 291 - Lisa M. v. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital · 46 Cal. App. 4th 55 - Janken v. GM Hughes Electronics
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 436 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Because the antidiscrimination objectives and relevant wording of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) [(42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.)] [and other federal antidiscrimination statutes] are similar to those of the FEHA, California courts often look to federal decisions interpreting these statutes for assistance in interpreting the FEHA'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“expressing] no opinion on the scope of employer liability under the FEHA for either discrimination or harassment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[T]he Legislature's differential treatment of harassment and discrimination is based on the fundamental distinction between harassment as a type of conduct not necessary to a supervisor's job performance, and business or personnel management decisions-which might later be considered discriminatory-as inherently necessary to performance of a supervisor's job.' [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Routt
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.