Dake v. Tuell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Nazeri v. Missouri Valley College (1993), Johnson v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. (1988)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Rice v. Norman Williams Co. · Chernabaeff v. Moss · Ahtanum Irrigation District v. United States · Porter v. Crawford & Co. · Arie v. Intertherm, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, plaintiffs would have us render near impotent this long standing legal principle — by establishing a rule that would permit an at will employee to bring an action for wrongful discharge under the guise of the prima facie tort doctrine. This we decline to do.” (Footnote omitted.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the essential elements of a valid contract, and a discharge in violation thereof.' Maddock v. Lewis, 386 S.W.2d 406, 409 (Mo.1965), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 929 [ 85 S.Ct. 1569 , 14 L.Ed.2d 688 ] (1965)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sole issue... whether discharged at will employees can maintain a suit for wrongful discharge against their former employers by cloaking their claims in the misty shroud of prima facie tort.”
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.