130 N.C. App. 738 - Wuchte v. McNeil’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 155 N.C. App. 462 - Toomer v. Garrett (2002), Knight v. Vernon (2000)
15 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employee-at-will can be fired for an irrational reason, no reason, or any reason that does not violate public policy. As such, an employee-at-will does not have a constitutionally protected right to continued employment and does not have the benefit of the protections of procedural due process. An employee whose employment would otherwise be at-will may gain a recognizable interest in continued employment where such a right is granted by ordinance or implied contract. Employee manuals or policy memoranda may form the basis of such a right if they are expressly included in the employee’s employment contract, or in the case of local governments, enacted as ordinances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Law enforcement agencies are required to complete a “Report of Separation” within ten days of an officer’s ... resignation ... and forward it to the Criminal Justice Standards Division. In addition to administrative information, such as the officer’s name and length of service, the form contains four sections: Reason for Separation, Reason, Employ-ability, and Agency’s Additional Comments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[W]here a state agency publicly and falsely accuses a discharged employee of dishonesty, immorality or job related misconduct, considerations of due process demand that the employee be afforded a hearing in order to have an opportunity to refute the accusation and remove the stigma upon his reputation.””
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.