52 Cal. 3d 1 - Shoemaker v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 441 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 551 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 29 Cal. 4th 1134 - Korea Supply Co. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. (2003), 7 Cal. 4th 503 - Applied Equipment Corp. v. Litton Saudi Arabia Ltd. (1994)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 441 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. · 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · 27 Cal. 3d 167 - Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 2 Cal. 3d 493 - Alcorn v. Anbro Engineering, Inc. · 43 Cal. 3d 148 - Cole v. Fair Oaks Fire Protection District
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 551 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the employer assumes liability for industrial personal injury or death without regard to fault in exchange for limitations on the amount of that liability. The employee is afforded relatively swift and certain payment of benefits to cure or relieve the effects of industrial injury without having to prove fault but, in exchange, gives up the wider range of damages potentially available in tort.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“not stem[ ] from a risk reasonably encompassed within the compensation bargain”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) Liability for the compensation provided by this division . . . shall, without regard to negligence, exist against an employer for any injury sustained by his or her employees arising out of and in the course of the employment ... in those cases where the following conditions of compensation concur: [‘JO • • • [1] “(2) Where, at the time of the injury, the employee is performing service growing out of and incidental to his or her employment and is acting within the course of his or her employment. “(3) Where the injury is proximately caused by the employment, either with or without negligence, [f ] . . . [][] “(9) Where the injury does not arise out of voluntary participation in any off-duty recreational, social, or athletic activity not constituting part of the employee’s work-related duties, except where these activities are a reasonable expectancy of, or are expressly or impliedly required by, the employment. . . .” (§ 3600, subd. (a), italics added.)”
3 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.