Jones v. Keogh’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 124 - Palmateer v. International Harvester Co. (1981), Adler v. American Standard Corp. (1981)
10 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 Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · Frampton v. Central Indiana Gas Company · 174 Cal. App. 2d 184 - Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396 · Monge v. Beebe Rubber Co. · Nees v. Hocks
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile full employment and employer-employee harmony are noble goals to which society aspires, they alone do not present the clear and compelling public policies upon which courts have been willing to rely in upholding an action for discharge of an employee at will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless there is a clear and compelling public policy against the reason advanced for the discharge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ever present in these opinions recognizing the common law rule is the concern that acceptance of a rule extending enforceable contract rights to an at will employee would destroy the mutuality of obligation extant in such employment relationships. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Rozendaal
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.