Lord v. Souder’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Metro Communication Corp. v. Advanced Mobilecomm Technologies Inc. (2004), Conneen v. MBNA America Bank, N.A. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 20 district · 26 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 19 Ohio St. 3d 100 - Mers v. Dispatch Printing Co. · Pontbriand v. Pontbriand · Stephenson v. Capano Development, Inc. · In Re Tri-Star Pictures, Inc., Litigation · Merrill v. Crothall-American, 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where the termination violated public policy; (2) where the employer misrepresented an important fact and the employee relied ‘thereon either to accept a new position or remain in a present one; (3) where the employer used its superior bargaining power to deprive an employee of clearly identifiable compensation related to the employee’s past service; and (4) where the employer falsified or manipulated employment records to create fictitious grounds for termination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i) a promise was made; (ii) it was the reasonable expectation of the promisor to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee; (iii) the promisee reasonably relied on the promise and took action to his detriment; and (iv) such promise is binding because injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise. 1”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The implied covenant [of good faith and fair dealing] cannot contravene the parties' express agreement and cannot be used to forge a new agreement beyond the scope of the written contract.”
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.