30 Cal. 4th 528 - White v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 42 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 451 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 670 (§ 470 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · John Aldens v. Maine · Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce a public employee has accepted employment and performed work for a public employer, the employee obtains certain rights arising from the legislative provisions that establish the terms of the employment relationship-rights that are protected by the contract clause of the state Constitution from elimination or repudiation by the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'virtually all salary agreements are subject to prior legislative approval. [¶] The act further provides that, except with respect to a number of specific statutes which the Legislature has expressly determined may be superseded by a memorandum of understanding, any provision of a memorandum of understanding in conflict with a statutory mandate shall not be effective unless approved by the Legislature.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]s a general matter, the question whether a preliminary injunction should be granted involves two interrelated factors: (1) the likelihood that the plaintiff will prevail on the merits, and (2) the relative balance of harms that is likely to result from the granting or denial of interim injunctive relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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