82 Md. App. 577 - Kessler v. Equity Management, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 105 Md. App. 743 - Shapiro v. Massengill (1995), Adams v. George W. Cochran & Co., Inc. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 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 Katz v. United States · Grunewald v. United States · Patton v. United States · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott · Adler v. American Standard 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We need not decide whether discharging an at-will employee for refusing to commit any act that might technically be tortious would be “contrary to a clear mandate of public policy.” s-s % H* K* Had appellant carried out her instructions to invade tenants’ constitutionally protected rights of privacy by snooping through their private papers, she would have been subject to civil liability. As Judge Eldridge, writing for the Court of Appeals in Widgeon v. Eastern Shore Hospital Center, 300 Md. 520 , 479 A.2d 921 (1984), explicated, violations of state or federal constitutional rights are actionable wrongs. Indeed, ... a violation of those rights could be remedied by an action at law for damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““public policy embodies a doctrine of vague and variable quality, and, unless deducible in the given circumstances from constitutional or statutory provisions, should be accepted as the basis of a judicial determination, if at all, only with the utmost circumspection. The public policy of one generation may not, under changed conditions be the public policy of another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rummage through the tenants' personal papers and effects to gather information that might be useful to the landlord.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wholey v. Roebuck
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.