204 N.J. Super. 514 - McQuitty v. General Dynamics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Witkowski v. Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. (1994), 238 N.J. Super. 430 - Noye v. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (1990)
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 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 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a recognition of basic contract principles concerning ... unilateral contracts”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since plaintiff was working without a contract as an at-will employee, his argument that every contract imposes a duty of good faith and fair dealing is irrelevant. One cannot read additional terms into a nonexistent contract., Defendant had an absolute right to terminate plaintiff without cause.”
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.