Bobich v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2011
14 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 Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Sorensen v. Fitzgerald · Donovan 84-5217 84-5245 v. Dialamerica Marketing Inc 84-5245 84-5217 · City of Whittier v. Whittier Fuel & Marine Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to encourage employees to press wage-and-hour claims”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[In determining whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor, the most important factor is the right to control the manner and means by which the work is to be performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Punitive damages are not compensation for actual physical harm, and prejudgment interest is generally not awarded on punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Draper
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.