Rood v. General Dynamics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Spacesaver Systems, Inc. v. Adam (2014), Holland v. Union Oil Co. of California, Inc. (1999)
20 federal appellate · 13 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.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`clear and unequivocal to overcome the presumption of employment at will,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[Ejxamine employer policy statements, concerning employee discharge, if any, to determine, as a threshold matter, whether such policies are reasonably capable of being interpreted as promises of just-cause employment. If the employer policies are incapable of such interpretation, then the court should dismiss the plaintiffs complaint on defendant’s motion for summary disposition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) proof of a “contractual provision for a definite term of employment or a provision forbidding discharge absent just cause;” (2) an express agreement, either written or oral, regarding job security that is clear and unequivocal; or (3) a contractual provision, implied at law, where an employer’s policies and procedures instill a “legitimate expectation” of job security in the employee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.