Rowan v. Tractor Supply Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'protect the health and safety of the petitioner ... from an act of violence, force or threat,' " and that she is "clearly a member of that class of persons directly entitled to the protection enunciated by the public policy.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Francis v. Nat'l Accrediting Comm'n of Career Arts & Sci., Inc. · 16 F. Supp. 3d 622 - Jones v. HCA (Hospital Corporation of America)

2. “[The Supreme Court of Virginia has] previously described the public policy underlying the obstruction of justice statute as reflecting “the General Assembly’s intent to prohibit interference with the administration of justice” and [to] proteet[ ] “the public’s safety and welfare.” City of Virginia Beach v. Harris, 259 Va. 220, 233 , 523 S.E.2d 239, 246 (2000). The goal of this policy is not to protect individuals from intimidation, but to protect the public from a flawed legal system due to impaired prosecution of criminals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 49 Va. App. 344 - Wise v. Commonwealth

3. “[w]hile virtually every statute expresses a public policy of some sort, we continue ... to hold that termination of an employee in violation of the policy underlying any one statute does not automatically give rise to a common law cause of action for wrongful discharge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Francis v. Nat'l Accrediting Comm'n of Career Arts & Sci., Inc.