Haley v. Retsinas’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 1245 · 1998
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2020
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Bechtel Construction Company v. Secretary of Labor · Neal v. Honeywell Inc. · Nowlin v. Resolution Trust Corp. · United States v. S.A.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“purpose, the subject matter and the condition of affairs which led”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This interpretation protects those who provide information about violations of the law to the appropriate authorities, but who try to safeguard themselves by blowing the whistle discreetly — i.e., by “requesting” with a mere suggestion or an implicit understanding. Particularly when the employee’s failure to make a direct request is driven by fear of the very conduct the statute proscribes (namely, retaliation), it would be unreasonable to deny the statute’s protection once the employee has completed the task the statute seeks to encourage (namely, alerting authorities to possible illegal activity). Our reading of the statute best effectuates the policy Congress sought to achieve in passing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The lower court opinion in Neal , however, was not the final disposition of that case. See Neal v. Honeywell, Inc., 33 F.3d 860 (7th Cir.1994). On appeal, the Seventh Circuit criticized the district court’s broad construction language and balked at the idea that “all statutes should receive the reading most favorable to whistleblowers.” Id. at 863 . The court nevertheless affirmed the district court’s decision that the whistle-blower statute applied to the plaintiffs situation. Id. at 863-64 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.