Peterson v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Faulkner v. United Technologies Corp. (1997), Oakwood Village LLC v. Albertsons, Inc. (2004)
2 district · 31 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 18 U.S.C. § 542 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. · 27 Cal. 3d 167 - Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 85 Ill. 2d 124 - Palmateer v. International Harvester Co. · Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
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.
“'The identification of clear and sub stantial public policies will require case-by-case development.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he effect on the employee of having to choose between keeping his [or her] job or following the law. . .is the same regardless of the origin of the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“clear and substantial public policies will support a claim of wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.