Koll v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ The instruction which was claimed to have been erroneous appears to be the correct construction warranted by the wording of the document, and well sustained by authority. It was: ‘ The court instructs you that, under the contract in evidence in this case, the plaintiff contracted to render satisfactory service to defendants, and the defendants had the right to discharge the plaintiff at any time when the service of the plaintiff was not satisfactory to them; but, to entitle defendants to discharge plaintiff on that ground, the claim made by them that such services were not satisfactory must be made in good faith — that is, the defendants must have been really dissatisfied with the service of the plaintiff to authorize his discharge upon that ground. And if you believe from the evidence that the defendants discharged the plaintiff because they were really dissatisfied with the services in the line of his employment, then you must find for the defendants, and it is not necessary that the defendants should have any cause for such dissatisfaction; but if you believe from the evidence that defendants were not really dissatisfied with the service of the plaintiff in the line of his employment, and that such claim is not made in good faith, then defendants were not authorized to discharge ■the plaintiff on that ground. ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCartney v. Badovinac