111 Ill. App. 3d 261 - Cuerton v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 74 Ill. 2d 172 - Kelsay v. Motorola, Inc. · 85 Ill. 2d 124 - Palmateer v. International Harvester Co. · 60 Ill. 2d 141 - Kravis v. Smith Marine, Inc. · Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities v. Civil Service Commission · 66 Ill. 2d 616 - Aranda v. Hobart Manufacturing 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]arties to an employment at-will contract may terminate it for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all, ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.