Neblett v. Getty’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1986
18 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 68 Cal. App. 134 - Ayres v. Lipschutz · Mairo v. Yellow Cab Co. of California · Reynolds v. Reynolds · 65 Cal. App. 413 - Boardman v. Christin · 136 Cal. App. 611 - Pierce v. Rilovich
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an employee is, without cause, discharged by his employer during the term of his employment, he may regard the contract as rescinded and sue upon a quantum meruit and recover the reasonable value of his services, as if the special contract of employment had never been made. [Citations.]”
2 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.