Gottling v. P.R. Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2025
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Berube v. Fashion Centre, Ltd. · Hechter v. New York Life Insurance · 5 Ariz. App. 511 - Tucson Gas & Electric Company v. Schantz · Bishop v. GenTec Inc. · Burton v. Exam Center Industrial & General Medical Clinic, 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature is presumed to know the common law which existed before the enactment of a statute, and absent an indication that the legislature intends a statute to supplant common law, the courts should not give it that effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Traditionally, the legislature may change the common law only explicitly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.