Cotter v. Lyft, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 48 Cal. 3d 341 - S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations · 49 Cal. 4th 35 - Martinez v. Combs · 27 Cal. 3d 690 - Industrial Welfare Commission v. Superior Court · 2 Cal. 3d 943 - Tieberg v. Unemployment Ins. App. Bd. · 46 Cal. App. 4th 55 - Janken v. GM Hughes Electronics
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[If] reasonable people could differ on whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor based on the evidence in the case, the question is not for a court to decide; it must go to the jury. This is true even if no significant dispute exists about the underlying facts, because the act of weighing and applying numerous intertwined factors, based on particular facts, is itself generally the job of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were never required to adhere to appearance standards, could accept or reject individual rides, did not drive for Lyft full time, and had minimal contact with Lyft management during their tenure. Id. at 1081 . The court distinguished the case from Ruiz and Alexander where there was overwhelming evidence that the employer had retained control over”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“so strongly in the direction of one status or the other that no reasonable juror could”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.