481 So. 2d 247 - Shaw v. Burchfield’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. (1990), Holloway v. Skinner (1995)
2 federal appellate · 102 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 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · Hicks v. Quaker Oats Co. · Smith v. Atlas Off-Shore Boat Service, Inc. · 457 So. 2d 941 - Dennis v. Searle · Rape v. Mobile & O. R. R.
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of importance here is the language of the rule authorizing summary judgment `where there is no genuine issue of material fact.' The presence of fact issues in the record does not per se entitle a party to avoid summary judgment. The court must be convinced that the factual issue is a material one, one that matters in an outcome determinative sense . . . the existence of a hundred contested issues of fact will not thwart summary judgment where there is no genuine dispute regarding the material issues of fact.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]bsent an employment contract expressly providing to the contrary, an employee may be discharged at the employer's will for good reason, bad reason, or no reason at all, excepting only reasons independently declared legally impermissible.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“one occupying a position of responsibility on behalf of another is privileged, within the scope of that responsibility and absent bad faith, to interfere with his principal's contractual relationship with a third person.”
6 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.