Rotermund v. Basic Materials Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1995
4 federal appellate · 8 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 State Ex Rel. St. Joseph Belt Railway Co. v. Shain · Home Trust Co. v. Josephson · Warner v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company · Chappell v. City of Springfield · State v. Hallenberg-Wagner Motor Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nominal damages are recoverable upon a showing that plaintiffs right to a letter was not complied with or that the letter was deficient under the requirements of the statute.... A recovery of [substantial actual damages] is predicated upon a showing that appellant was either refused employment, or ... hindered in securing employment by reason of his not having a service letter in compliance with the statutory requirements.”
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.