Lopez v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Trujillo v. Nora (2001), Trujillo v. Northern Rio Arriba Electric Cooperative, Inc. (2001)
5 district · 16 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 Melnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Hartbarger v. Frank Paxton Co. · Kestenbaum v. Pennzoil Co. · Ciup v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. · 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the facts disclose the existence of an implied employment contract provision that limits the employer's authority to discharge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. Nora“wrongful termination under facts disclosing unlawful retaliatory discharge”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. Nora
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.