Alexander v. Eagle Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
March 2019
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Ziegler v. IBP Hog Market, Inc. · Godoy v. Office of Personnel Management · Suchodolski v. Michigan Consolidated Gas 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when an employee learns of illegal activity and, although not directly invited to participate by his employer, knows he will inevitably become complicit in the illegality by performing his normal work responsibilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would have inevitably been forced to participate or become complicit in any illegal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“employer affirmatively requests that the employee violate the law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.