Overman v. Fluor Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 217 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2014
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Pullman-Standard v. Swint · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Pitcher v. United Oil & Gas Syndicate, Inc. · United States v. Acres of Land Situated in Grenada and Yalobusha Counties State of Mississippi J G · Higgins v. Smith International, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No single foreseeable event triggered the end of his job.... The time when his services would no longer be needed depended on a number of factors and, ultimately, on the judgment of his supervisor. Such a flexible relationship, promising employment until one’s services are no longer needed, does not establish a fixed term, and, therefore, in Louisiana at least, must be regarded as employment at will.””
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.