Pittman v. Larson Distributing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Morriss v. Coleman Co. (1987), Burk v. K-Mart Corp. (1989)
5 federal appellate · 19 district · 32 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 Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. · Morrison v. Goodspeed · Abrahamsen v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 66 Ill. App. 3d 664 - Criscione v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Nettrour v. JC Penney Company
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]t is unlawful for any person, company, corporation, association or organization of any kind doing business in this state ... to induce, influence, persuade, or engage workmen to change from one place of employment to another in this state ... through or by means of false or deceptive representations ... concerning the kind and character of the work to be done, or amount and character of the compensation to be paid for such work or ... other conditions of the employment. ...””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) the defendant’s concealment of a material existing fact that in equity or good conscience should be disclosed, (2) the defendant’s knowledge that the fact is being concealed, (3) the plaintiff's ignorance of the fact, (4) the defendant’s intent that the plaintiff act on the concealed fact, and (5) the plaintiff’s action on the concealment resulting in damage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of special consideration or an express stipulation as to the duration of employment, a contract for permanent employment is no more than an indefinite, general hiring terminable at the will of either party.”
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.