Witkowski v. Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 54 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. (1995), Nguyen v. CNA Corp. (1995)
12 federal appellate · 54 district · 43 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 Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · Woolley v. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. · Pine River State Bank v. Mettille · Erickson v. Marsh & McLennan Co.
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employment manual providing terms and conditions of employment that include grounds and procedures for dismissal can create an employment contract.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employer may fire an employee for good reason, bad reason, or no reason at all”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f a plaintiff can prove that an employment manual containing job-security and termination procedures could reasonably be understood by an employee to create binding duties and obligations between the employer and its employees, the manual will constitute, in effect, a unilateral offer to contract that an employee may accept through continued employment.”
3 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.