Storey v. Patient First Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1301 (Charity Games Advertising Clarification Act of 1988) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 3731 (False Claims Act)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any employee who is discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment by his or her employer because of lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of the employee or others in furtherance of an action under this section, including investigation for, initiation of, testimony for, or assistance in an action filed or to be filed under this section, shall be entitled to all relief necessary to make the employee whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) where an employer violated a policy enabling the exercise of an employee’s statutorily create right; (2) where the public policy violated by the employer was explicitly expressed in the statute and the employee was clearly a member of that class of persons directly entitled to the protection enunciated by the public policy; and (3) where the discharge was based on the employee’s refusal to engage in a criminal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“more than 3 years after the date when facts material to the right of action are known or reasonably should have been known by the official of the United States charged with responsibility to act in the circumstances, but in no event more than 10 years after the date on which the violation is committed.”
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.