Anco Construction Co. v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Morriss v. Coleman Co. (1987), Palmer v. Brown (1988)
1 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 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. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Farmer v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 25 · National Labor Relations Board v. Washington Aluminum Co. · 6 Kan. App. 2d 488 - Murphy v. City of Topeka
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The employment-at-will doctrine in Kansas stems from the judicial determination that, in the absence of a contract covering the duration of employment, the employment is terminable at the will of either party, and the employee has no cause of action by alleging he was discharged.””
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.