20 Cal. 4th 1021 - Summers v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley · Holloway v. United States · 9 Cal. 4th 863 - Chia-Lee Hsu v. Abbara · 30 Cal. 3d 721 - Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson · 35 Cal. 3d 498 - Gray v. Don Miller & Associates, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 3860 provides, in subdivision (a), that a settlement with a third party tortfeasor is not valid or binding unless both the employer and the employee have received notice sufficient to give the employer an opportunity to recover its reimbursable compensation costs and to give the employee an opportunity to recover personal injury damages in excess of the reimbursable compensation costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e use `reimbursable compensation costs' as a shorthand expression for what section 3860 more precisely designates as compensation that the employer has paid or has become obligated to pay and any special damages to which the employer is entitled under section 3852.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“assuring the worker that he can obtain an attorney by guaranteeing that attorney priority in the event that the judgment recovered should not suffice both to recompense him and to satisfy the employer's claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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