63 Cal. 2d 124 - Saala v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably 2 Cal. 3d 956 - Hinman v. Westinghouse Electric Co. (1970), 27 Cal. 3d 465 - Johns-Manville Products Corp. v. Superior Court (1980)
140 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Relies on Baugh v. Rogers · 59 Cal. 2d 668 - Meyer v. Blackman · 142 Cal. App. 2d 126 - Pleasant Valley Lima Bean Growers & Warehouse Ass'n v. Cal-Farm Insurance · 48 Cal. 2d 617 - Lamoreux v. San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Co. · 46 Cal. 2d 349 - Reinert v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acting within the scope of his [or her] employment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Tjhis court recognized ... that scope of employment defines a more restricted area of employee conduct than the customary phrase “arising out of and in the course of the employment.” We stated: “Although this court has not gone so far as to hold that every injury to an employee attending to his duties and within the course of his employment is compensable, it has, in many cases, upheld the allowance of compensation for injuries arising out of acts not strictly within the scope of the employment: returning from lunch [citation]; drinking wine because of indisposition [citation]; smoking [citation].... ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“arising out of and in the course of employment”
2 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.