Kunz v. Colnon’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 2000
2 district · 1 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Offutt · Swart v. Huston · Boatright v. Steinite Radio Corp. · Edwards v. Kentucky Utilities Co. · Yazoo & M. V. R. Co. v. Webb
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a contract of permanent employment which is not supported by any consideration other that the obligation of services to be performed on the one hand and wages to be paid on the other is a contract for an indefinite period and, as such, is terminable at the will of either party.”
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.