2 Cal. 4th 593 - DaFonte v. Up-Right, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 472 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 501 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley (1996), 11 Cal. 4th 274 - Trope v. Katz (1995)
6 federal appellate · 472 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 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · 37 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Lance W. · 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 44 Cal. 3d 1188 - Evangelatos v. Superior Court · 52 Cal. 3d 65 - Rojo v. Kliger
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 501 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine the intent of legislation, we first consult the words themselves, giving them their usual and ordinary meaning. [Citations.]”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Title or chapter headings are unofficial and do not alter the explicit scope, meaning, or intent of a statute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any action for personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death, based upon principles of comparative fault, the liability of each defendant for non-economic damages shall be several only and shall not be joint. Each defendant shall be liable only for the amount of non-economic damages allocated to that defendant in direct proportion to that defendant's percentage of fault, and a separate judgment shall be rendered against that defendant for that amount.”
3 later decisions 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.