30 Cal. 2d 496 - Dodds v. Stellar’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Duprey v. Shane (1952), 15 Cal. 3d 162 - Quinn v. State of California (1975)
40 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 Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Trustees v. Greenough · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus · Winslow v. Harold G. Ferguson Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is to be any change in these statutory provisions defining the rights of the parties, the suggestion for such change should be addressed to the Legislature rather than to the courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Section 3856. The court shall first apply, out of the entire amount of any judgment for any damage recovered by the employee, a sufficient amount to reimburse the employer for the amount of his expenditures for compensation. If the employer has not joined in the action or has not brought action, or if his fiction has not been consolidated, the court, on his application, shall allow, as a first lien against the entire amount of any judgment for any damages recovered by the employee, the amount of the employer’s expenditures for compensation.” “Section 3860. No release or settlement under this chapter after action before judgment is valid and binding without notice to both employer and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he employer’s lien should extend to only those expenses attributable to the medical aggravation of the injury; i.e. that the amount of the lien should be limited to the amount that the employer is required to pay because of the malpractice.”
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.