Dale S. Rice v. Nova Biomedical Corporation and Robert Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 909 · 1995
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Williams (1996), City of New York v. Mickalis Pawn Shop, LLC (2011)
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Calder v. Jones
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f [the defendant's] action in coming into Illinois to fire and defame [the plaintiff] was done solely on behalf of [the defendant's employer], he is under the fiduciary shield and this regardless of whether he exercised discretion rather than merely carrying out precise orders mechanically.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“denies personal jurisdiction over an individual whose presence and activity in the state in which the suit is brought were solely on behalf of his employer or other principal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Since [compelled self-defamation] is a minority view, and a very questionable oneit makes it impossible for an employer to communicate his grounds for discharging an employee to the employee even confidentially without incurring a grave risk of being sued for defamation-we believe it unlikely that the Supreme Court of Illinois would take a different view from the intermediate appellate court in Layne." Rice, 38 F.3d at 912 .”
2 later decisions 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.