Cochran v. Quest Software, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
328 F.3d 1 · 2003
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 56 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Welch v. Ciampa (2008), Anthony Artuso v. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2011)
29 federal appellate · 56 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Medina-Munoz v. Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company · Griggs-Ryan v. Smith · Fortune v. National Cash Register 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Material facts of record set forth in the statement required to be served by the moving party will be deemed for purposes of the motion to be admitted by opposing parties unless controverted by the statement required to be served by opposing parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he rationale behind [the Massachusetts] exception is that every contract contains a covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and an employer breaches that covenant when it dismisses an at-will employee in order to deprive him of compensation fairly earned and legitimately expected for services already rendered”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free to forego independent inquiry and accept that agreement.”
2 later decisions 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.