Walker v. Abbott Laboratories’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.3d 471 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Humphries v. CBOCS West, Inc. (2007), Fane v. Locke Reynolds, LLP (2007)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Runyon v. McCrary · 142 Ill. 2d 495 - Fellhauer v. City of Geneva · McKnight v. General Motors Corp. · Elizabeth Perry v. Judy Woodward the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Bernalillo
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is simply no rule or case law that requires litigants to move for reconsideration of an interlocutory ruling in order to avoid waiving a challenge to that ruling on appeal of a final decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Illinois courts generally treat at-will employment relationships as contractual in nature.”
1 later decision 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.