Gilbert v. Tulane University’s Empirical Analysis
909 F.2d 124 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2018
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on 526 So. 2d 1101 - Brannan v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. · Robert v. Conti Carriers & Terminals, Inc. · Thebner v. Xerox Corp. · 480 So. 2d 454 - Thebner v. Xerox Corp. · Johnson v. Delchamps, 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has broad discretion in deciding whether to admit into evidence exhibits not listed in the pre-trial order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... argues that Tulane's staff handbook modified his at-will employment status and gave him a contractual right to invoke its grievance procedures.... He argues that the Louisiana courts have found Staff Handbooks to create contractual rights in other cases. We reject these contentions..... [N]o promises had been made to Wall concerning the benefits that would have made them `part of Wall's employment agreement with Tulane.' ... [N]o oral contract was offered to Gilbert and ... no promises were made to him concerning the handbook's grievance procedures.... Since the handbook itself was not an employment contract, and no promises were made to Gilbert concerning its benefits, Gilbert had no contractual right to invoke the handbook's grievance procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“primarily informational in nature and did not ... constitute a binding promise by Tulane to continue indefinitely the benefits described therein.”
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.