Keneally v. Orgain’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 124 - Palmateer v. International Harvester Co. (1981), 102 Wash. 2d 219 - Thompson v. St. Regis Paper Company (1984)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. · Myhre v. Myhre · Wilcox v. Newman · Percival v. General Motors Corporation · Puetz v. Carlson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Thus, that court noted, correctly, that a discharge by an employer in a contract terminable at will does not give rise to a claim for wrongful discharge in the ordinary sense, though the firing or the termination may have been unjustified. It is only when a public policy has been violated in connection with the wrongful discharge that the cause of action arises." 606 P.2d at 129 , 37 St.Rep. at 157.”
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.