Groce v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Mason v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (1997), Miller v. Miller (1998)
7 federal appellate · 25 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 Conley v. Gibson · Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Buell · Adler v. American Standard Corp. · 174 Cal. App. 2d 184 - Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396 · Parnar v. Americana Hotels, 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“''Every defense, in law or fact, to a claim for relief in any pleading, whether a claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, shall be asserted in the responsive pleading thereto if one is required, except that the following defenses may at the option of the pleader be made by motion: 4 o%o% 6. Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted;* * *."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[in an at-will employment setting the relationship between the employer and employee is contractual or promise-based-express or implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for good cause, for no cause or even for cause morally wrong, without being thereby guilty of legal wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.