Johnson v. Kolman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2025
14 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Lichter v. United States · Renegotiation Board v. Bannercraft Clothing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America · United States v. Radio Corp. of America
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if part of the wrongful termination of employment issue is cognizable by the Department of Labor, the facts of the case bring it within one of the exceptions to the exhaustion doctrine. It is well settled that exhaustion is not required when the administrative remedies are inadequate.”
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.