95 N.C. App. 226 - Brooks v. Stroh Brewery Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably O'ROURKE v. Commonwealth (2001), 106 N.C. App. 496 - Lenzer v. Flaherty (1992)
2 district · 20 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 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 660 (§ 11 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · University of Tennessee v. Elliott · National Labor Relations Board v. Transportation Management Corp. · Dickens v. Puryear
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The direct causal connection between the protected activity and termination present in each of these cases is not evident in the case presently before the Court. This Court is not unmindful that circumstantial evidence is often the only evidence available to show retaliation against protected activity. Nevertheless, the causal connection must be something more than speculation; otherwise, the complaining employee is clothed with immunity for future misconduct and is 'better off' for having filed the complaint rather than being no 'worse off.'”
1 later decision 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.