Sejman’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Doe v. Group Hospitalization & Medical Services (1993), Headrick v. Rockwell International Corp. (1994)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Blau v. Del Monte Corporation
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could discourage employers ... from seeking to ensure that their former employees retain their old positions or encourage such employers to forego severance payments altogether”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n the context of the sale of a business where the buyer retains the former owner's employees, it would give a windfall to award severance pay to employees who never changed their jobs and were never out of work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“terminated by the Company as a result of job elimination”
2 later decisions 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.