55 Cal. App. 4th 767 - Brown v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 46 Cal. 4th 1035 - Hughes v. Pair (2009), 36 Cal. 4th 1114 - People v. Carter (2005)
32 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. § 1437F
Relies on Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 8 Cal. 4th 548 - Soule v. General Motors Corp. · 52 Cal. 3d 1142 - Harris v. Capital Growth Investors XIV
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Existing law makes it unlawful to harass an employee or employment applicant because of, among other things, sex. These provisions are enforced by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. General provisions of existing law specify that all persons have the right to be free from violence or intimidation by threat of violence, against their persons or property, because of certain bases of discrimination. [¶] This bill would provide a cause of action for sexual harassment that occurs as part of a professional relationship, as specified.”
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.