Wright v. Cayan’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 999 · 1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 189 Ill. App. 3d 980 - Harrison v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1989), Rooney v. Tyson (1998)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... accords the employer an unfettered right to terminate the employment at any time ... it would be incongruous to say that an inference may be drawn that the employer impliedly agreed to a provision which would be destructive of his right to termination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absent a constitutionally impermissible purpose, a statutory proscription, or an express limitation in the individual’s con tract of employment, an employer’s right at any time to terminate an employment at will remains unimpaired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he authority of Tiranno v. Sears, Roebuck & Co . is rather shaky, to say the least, in light of the same court's subsequent decision in Collins v. Hoselton Datsun, Inc.”
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.