32 Cal. 4th 491 - Metropolitan Water District v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 49 Cal. 4th 35 - Martinez v. Combs (2010), 36 Cal. 4th 1075 - Reynolds v. Bement (2005)
56 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian · 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 19 Cal. 4th 1 - Yamaha Corp. of America v. State Board of Equalization
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he PERL's provision concerning employment by a contracting agency ( [Gov. Code] § 20028, subd. (b) ) incorporates a common law test for employment, and that nothing elsewhere in the PERL, in [the defendant]'s administrative code, or in statutes and regulations addressing joint employment in other contexts supports reading into the PERL an exception to mandatory enrollment for employees hired through private labor suppliers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) `Member' means an employee who has qualified for membership in this system and on whose behalf an employer has become obligated to pay contributions. [¶] . . . (c) `Local member' includes: [¶] (1) Local miscellaneous members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here Congress uses terms that have accumulated settled meaning under ... the common law, a court must infer, unless the statute otherwise dictates, that Congress means to incorporate the established meaning of these terms.”
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.