47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
304 federal appellate · 30 district · 962 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,759 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 317 - Guz v. Bechtel National, Inc. (2000), 7 Cal. 4th 503 - Applied Equipment Corp. v. Litton Saudi Arabia Ltd. (1994)
304 federal appellate · 30 district · 962 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · 39 Cal. 3d 311 - Blank v. Kirwan · 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · 27 Cal. 3d 167 - Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · Crisci v. Security Insurance
Cited together with 27 Cal. 3d 167 - Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 1 Cal. 4th 1083 - Gantt v. Sentry Insurance · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · 24 Cal. 4th 317 - Guz v. Bechtel National, 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 1,759 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very contract imposes upon each party a duty of good faith and fair dealing in its performance and its enforcement.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]any statutes [that] impose requirements whose fulfillment does not implicate fundamental public policy concerns.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“the personnel policies or practices of the employer, the employee's longevity of service, actions or communications by the employer reflecting assurances of continued employment, and the practices of the industry in which the employee is engaged.”
13 later decisions 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.