Wakefield v. Northern Telecom, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 535 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Piesco v. Koch (1993), Kerman v. City of New York (2004)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Schwabenbauer v. Board of Education · Radack v. Norwegian America Line Agency, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Home Insurance · Wakefield v. Northern Telecom, 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rarely, in a wrongful termination case, is the plaintiff privileged to have such direct evidence to support his claim. Prima facie cases are usually established by circumstantial evidence that may include just such a sequence as was shown here.”
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.