Johnson v. World Color Press, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the “plaintiff should not be charged with knowing conclusively whether the securities laws have been violated, but rather an allegation that he reasonably believed the complained of practices might be illegal was sufficient.”
• allowing retaliatory discharge claim by employee who reported what he reasonably believed to be violations of federal securities laws
• allowing retaliatory discharge action by employee fired for disclosing what he believed to be violations of federal securities laws
• allowing retaliatory discharge action by employee fired for disclosing what he believed to be violations of federal securities laws
• allowing retaliatory discharge claim by employee who reported what he reasonably believed to be violations of federal securities laws
• finding that federal securities laws are a source of public policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Faulkner v. United Technologies Corp.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-04-22· cited 812×
• Martin Marietta Corp. v. Lorenz
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-02-03· cited 198×
• Michael Brandon, M.D. v. Anesthesia & Pain Management Associates, Ltd., Kumar S. Ravi, M.D., James R. Boivin, M.D., and Kathleen H. Slocum, M.D.
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-01-18· cited 79×
• Anthony Prince v. Rescorp Realty, an Illinois Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-10-29· cited 74×
• Layne v. Builders Plumbing Supply Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-03-27· cited 73×
• J. Richard Tanner v. Jupiter Realty Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-01-05· cited 66×
• Heslop v. Bank of Utah
  Utah Supreme Court· 1992-09-04· cited 62×
• Doherty v. Kahn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-06-18· cited 61×
• Frank G. Belline v. K-Mart Corporation, a Michigan Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-08-22· cited 51×
• Stebbings v. University of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-03-14· cited 48×
• Webber v. Wight & Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-11-09· cited 47×
• Davis v. Times Mirror Magazines, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-06-23· cited 37×
• Aste v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-03-28· cited 33×
• Dunn v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2005-04-12· cited 31×
• Howard v. Zack Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-30· cited 29×
• Sloan v. Jasper County Community Unit School District No. 1
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-04-15· cited 29×
• Sherman v. Kraft General Foods, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-06-08· cited 28×
• Abrams v. Echlin Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-08-30· cited 26×
• Russ v. Pension Consultants Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-04-25· cited 24×
• Carter Coal Co. v. Human Rights Commission
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-05-02· cited 24×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 3,533×
• Palmateer v. International Harvester Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 657×
• Barr v. Kelso-Burnett Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-05-24· cited 210×
• Wheeler v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-10-18· cited 167×
• Joiner v. Benton Community Bank
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-09-29· cited 128×
• United States v. Oscar De J. Tobon-Builes
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-06-06· cited 116×
• Petrik v. Monarch Printing Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-12-21· cited 50×
• Wait v. First Midwest Bank/Danville
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-03-31· cited 50×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,957 United States of America v. Luigi M. Di Fonzo
  Seventh Circuit· 1979-10-15· cited 41×
• Ford v. Ford Manufacturing Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1921-10-04· cited 14×
• Petrik v. Monarch Printing Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-04-22· cited 9×