Carnation Co. v. Borner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez (1997), Sabine Pilot Service, Inc. v. Hauck (1985)
10 federal appellate · 47 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 Texas Steel Co. v. Douglas · Bildon Farms, Inc. v. Ward County Water Improvement Dist. No. 2 · Thompson v. Monsanto Co. · Carnation Co. v. Borner
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person may discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has in good faith filed a claim, hired a lawyer to represent him in a claim, instituted, or caused to be instituted, in good faith, any proceeding under the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Legislature's purpose in enacting article 8307c was to protect persons who are entitled to benefits under the Worker's Compensation Law and to prevent them from being discharged by reason of taking steps to collect such benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We find that [the Carnation employee’s] position is distinguishable. [The Carnation employee] filed a grievance pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement. Once the grievance was filed, its processing was under the exclusive control of the Union. No arbitration procedure was invoked by the Union and no final and binding arbitration decision was obtained. No resolution of [the employee’s] grievance was ever reached.”
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.