Jones v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Wright v. Craft (2006), R & G Const., Inc. v. Lrta (2000)
24 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 Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · Small v. Springs Industries, Inc. · Ludwick v. This Minute of Carolina, Inc. · 77 N.C. App. 253 - Walker v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Creech v. South Carolina Wildlife & Marine Resources Department
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the language of the 1988 GE handbook stating employment was at will was not distinguished from other information by bold type, underlining, or any other method to emphasize and reasonably call attention to its contents. In the 1993 version of the handbook, the language is in all capital, but it is not otherwise distinguishes by being underlined, set apart with a distinctive border, or in a contrasting type of color, etc. The information appears only in the body of the Foreword, and is not repeated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A term or clause is conspicuous when it is so written that a reasonable person against whom it is to operate ought to have noticed it. A printed heading in capitals (as NONNEGOTIABLE BILL OF LADING) is conspicuous. Language in the body of a form is “conspicuous” of it is in larger or other contrasting type.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonably could have determined that Small’s actions” warranted immediate discharge as a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.