D'Angelo v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 38 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Parsons v. United Technologies Corp. (1997), Burnham v. Karl & Gelb, P.C. (2000)
12 federal appellate · 38 district · 48 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. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 30 U.S.C. § 801 (Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972)
Relies on 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. · Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · 174 Cal. App. 2d 184 - Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396 · Hansen v. Harrah's · Olguin v. Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co.
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n employer commits a tortious discharge by terminating an employee for reasons which violate public policy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a contractual obligation not to discharge the employee without first abiding by conditions relating to dismissal which are either expressly agreed upon by the parties or inferable from the dealings and practices of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“tortious discharges may arise when an employer dismisses an employee in retaliation for the employee's doing of acts which are consistent with or supportive of sound public policy and the common good”
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.