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wrongful discharge

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 406 U.S. 320 - Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · 1972Most cited · 1,502 citing opinions

the very concept of 'wrongful discharge' implies some sort of statutory or contractual standard that modifies the traditional common-law rule that a contract of employment is terminable by either party at will

How often courts cite the case defining “wrongful discharge”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “wrongful discharge” — 1,481 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.