Joanou’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2016
3 district · 2 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 Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Withrow v. Williams · Johnson v. Texas · Blau v. Del Monte Corporation
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remain free to unilaterally amend or eliminate such plans without considering the employees' interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2039, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 3461, Pens. Plan Guide P 23918x Inter-Modal Rail Employees Association Thomas Franks Charles Jones Thomas J. Martin Hoyt Jarrard Robert Stein v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company In-Terminal Services, Division of Mi-Jack Products, Inc., an Illinois Corp., Inter-Modal Rail Employees Association Thomas Franks Charles Jones Thomas J. Martin Hoyt Jarrard Robert Stein v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Santa Fe Terminal Services, Inc. · Inter-Modal Rail Associates v. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company
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.