People v. Medrano’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2007
2 federal appellate · 7 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 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Drope v. Missouri · Thomas v. Collins · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Kleindienst v. Mandel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The exclusion of farm labor contractors from ALRA coverage as agricultural employers reflects a deliberate legislative choice. The creation of stable collective bargaining relationships in agriculture is hindered by shifting employment and fluidity of the work force. To class farm labor contractors, along with farmers and farmer associations, as parties to collective bargaining would augment the difficulties. In the process of creating a collective bargaining relationship from the initial organizing efforts, into the petition and election stages and ultimately to the contractual culmination the statute views farmers or associations of farmers as the only employers (see §§ 1156-1159). A farm labor contractor may actually hire, supervise and pay the workers, becoming their actual employer (see, § 1682, subd. (b), fn. 2, ante ). The ALRA excludes him from the statutory category of agricultural employers because he is excluded from the unionization and collective bargaining processes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The California Legislature did not exclude farm labor contractors from the law in the belief that the ALRB could reinsert them by labeling them as `supervisors.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he employer engaging such labor contractor ... shall be deemed the employer for all purposes under this part.”
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.