Firestone Textile Co. Division v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Malhotra v. Cotter & Co. (1989), Martin Marietta Corp. v. Lorenz (1992)
14 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 International News Service v. Associated Press · Frampton v. Central Indiana Gas Company · 113 Wis. 2d 561 - Brockmeyer v. Dun & Bradstreet · Pari-Mutuel Clerks' Union of Kentucky, Local 541, SEIU, AFL-CIO Ex Rel. Mann v. Kentucky Jockey Club · Scroghan v. Kraftco Corp.
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) The discharge must be contrary to a fundamental and well-defined public policy as evidenced by existing law. 2) That policy must be evidenced by a constitutional or statutory provision. 3) The decision of whether the public policy asserted meets these criteria is a question of law for the court to decide, not a question of fact.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“for good cause, for no cause, or for a cause that some might view as morally indefensible”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“All statutes of this state shall be liberally construed with a view to promote their objects and carry out the intent of the legislature, and the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall not apply to the statutes of this state.”
2 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.