Bernard v. IMI Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Witkowski v. Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. (1994), Hamilton v. Segue Software Inc. (2000)
2 federal appellate · 21 district · 23 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · Adair v. United States · Coppage v. State · Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tock options are an incentive to `stimulate the efforts of key employees and to strengthen the desire of such employees to remain in the employment of the Corporation.' Such incentives do not apply to [retired] employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that not every relinquishment of a prior job or job offer constitutes additional compensation to support the modification of an at-will employment into employment with termination for cause only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]oday both employers and employees commonly and reasonably expect employment to be at-will, unless specifically stated in explicit, contractual terms.”
1 later decision 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.