Forrester v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 11 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 115 Ill. 2d 482 - Duldulao v. Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center (1987), Melnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1988)
13 federal appellate · 11 district · 38 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 Trujillo v. Chavez · Roan Ex Rel. Roan v. D. W. Falls, 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he guide constituted an implied employment contract; the conditions and procedures provided in it bound both Forrester and Parker. The words and conduct of the parties here gave rise to this implied contract.”
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.