73 Cal. App. 3d 499 - Mitchell v. Ed Hizer’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2006
11 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
Relies on 6 Cal. 3d 771 - Laeng v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · 19 Cal. 2d 8 - Freire v. Matson Navigation Co. · Greydanus v. Industrial Accident Commission · Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission · Lockheed Aircraft Corp. 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In regard to the incident of September 27, although respondent had undoubtedly been fired by that date, we deem it unimportant to decide whether his actual date of termination was September 11th as he claims, or the 24th, as is contended by appellants, although the evidence points to the latter. In either event, his return to the employer’s premises to return keys, tools and uniforms at the employer’s request was “directly connected with the employment relationship and, being incident thereto, the employee [is] entitled to the protection of workers’ compensation until he had left the premises.””
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.