Angell v. Peterson Tractor, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 18 Cal. 4th 1143 - City of Moorpark v. Superior Court (1998), 163 Cal. App. 4th 327 - Arteaga v. Brink's, Inc. (2008)
4 federal appellate · 20 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 27 Cal. 3d 167 - Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 52 Cal. 3d 1 - Shoemaker v. Myers · 174 Cal. App. 2d 184 - Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396 · 22 Cal. 3d 658 - Judson Steel Corp. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board · 2 Cal. 4th 744 - Livitsanos v. Superior Court
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.
“Under Labor Code section 132a, the employee must still prove fault it cannot be assumed that every dismissed employee with a work-related physical handicap was fired for that reason and as a consequence payment is neither swift nor certain.”
1 later decision 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.