Stieber v. Journal Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Deflon v. Sawyers (2006), DeArmond v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · In re Disbarment of Gonzales · Koenig v. Perez · Hartbarger v. Frank Paxton Co. · Newberry v. Allied Stores, Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this rule, accepted in the majority of jurisdictions that have considered the problem, an employer's right to terminate an employee at will necessarily and logically includes what may be viewed as a lesser-included right to insist upon prospective changes in the terms of that employment as condition of continued employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[A]n employer ordinarily may discharge an employee for any reason and at any time. It follows that an employer may also modify the employment contract so long as the modification applies only prospectively.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When reviewing a [district] court's grant of summary judgment, we view the facts in the light most favorable to the party opposing summary judgment, drawing all inferences in favor of that party.”
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.