Crabtree v. Bugby’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Fleshner v. Pepose Vision Institute, P.C. (2010), Richter v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (2012)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 Thummel v. King · Kansas City v. Keene Corp. · Hansome v. Northwestern Cooperage Co. · Ritterbusch v. Holt · Reed v. Sale Memorial Hospital & Clinic
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Hansome v. Northwestern Cooperage Co., 679 S.W.2d 273 (Mo.banc 1984), this Court noted that the above statute was enacted into law against the backdrop of the ‘at will’ doctrine, which allows an employer to fire an employee without a dura-tional contract for any reason or for no reason at all. Id. at 275 n. 2. The workers’ compensation act did not abolish the at will doctrine but rather provided a limited exception which allows an action where there was an exclusive causal relationship between the discharge and the employee’s exercise of rights granted under chapter 287 RSMo 1978. Id. The Court concluded that the action authorized by the statute has four elements: (1) plaintiffs status as an employee of defendant before injury, (2) plaintiffs exercise of a right granted by chapter 287, (3) employer’s discharge of or discrimination against plaintiff, and (4) an exclusive causal relationship between plaintiffs action and defendant’s actions. Id. at 275 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once this Court by case law has resolved the elements of a cause of action pursuant to section 287.780, neither the trial court nor the court of appeals is free to redefine the elements in every case that comes before them. Mo. Const, art. V, sec. 2. Similarly, this Court should not lightly disturb its own precedent. Mere disagreement by the current Court with the statutory analysis of a predecessor Court is not a satisfactory basis for violating the doctrine of stare decisis, at least in the absence of a recurring injustice or absurd results. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No employer or agent shall discharge or in any way discriminate against any employee for exercising any of his rights under this chapter. Any employee who has been discharged or discriminated against shall have a civil action for damages against his employer.”
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.