Newton v. Brown & Root’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on MBM Co., Inc. v. Counce · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Matthews · Griffin v. Erickson · Jefferson Electric Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Miller v. Missouri Pacific Transportation Co.
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.
“the right of the employer to terminate the employment is unconditional and absolute”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Skeets v. Johnson
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.