Wholey v. Roebuck

How courts have described this case

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

• “The tort of wrongful discharge is one exception to the well-established principle that an at-will employee may be discharged by his employer for any reason, or no reason at all.”
• “[T]o establish a wrongful discharge, the employee must be discharged, the basis for the employee’s discharge must violate some clear mandate of public policy, and there must be a nexus between the employee’s conduct and the employer’s decision to fire the employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Banks v. International Rental & Leasing Corp.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-12-15· cited 162×
• Haas v. Lockheed Martin Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-01-09· cited 143×
• Lloyd v. Drake University
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2004-09-01· cited 74×
• Liddy v. Lamone
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-29· cited 53×
• Woodbury v. Victory Van Lines
  D. Maryland· 2017-12-21· cited 53×
• French v. Hines
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-03· cited 46×
• Porterfield v. Mascari II, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-05-08· cited 46×
• Karen Dorshkind v. Oak Park Place of Dubuque II, L.L.C.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-02· cited 44×
• Cain v. Midland Funding, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-24· cited 37×
• Parks v. Alpharma, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-07-19· cited 31×
• King v. Marriott International, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-27· cited 27×
• Murphy-Taylor v. Hofmann
  D. Maryland· 2013-09-12· cited 27×
• Forster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-22· cited 25×
• Vasquez v. Whole Foods Mkt., Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-02-09· cited 24×
• Yuan v. Johns Hopkins University
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-29· cited 23×
• Taghivand v. Rite Aid Corp.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2015-01-28· cited 21×
• Glynn v. Edo Corp.
  D. Maryland· 2008-02-27· cited 19×
• Khalifa v. Shannon
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-04-09· cited 18×
• Lark v. Montgomery Hospice, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-13· cited 16×
• Symeonidis v. Paxton Capital Group, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2002-07-15· cited 12×

Cites

74 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bush v. Lucas
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-13· cited 1,430×
• Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-03-29· cited 1,284×
• Patton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1930-04-14· cited 1,162×
• Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1980-06-02· cited 695×
• Palmateer v. International Harvester Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 657×
• Thompson v. St. Regis Paper Company
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-07-05· cited 536×
• Sheets v. Teddy's Frosted Foods, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-01-22· cited 532×
• Geary v. United States Steel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 514×
• Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-11-27· cited 506×
• Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-28· cited 501×
• Frampton v. Central Indiana Gas Company
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-05-01· cited 448×
• Harris v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-12-09· cited 400×
• Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-14· cited 392×
• Sabetay v. Sterling Drug, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1987-03-26· cited 365×
• Burk v. K-Mart Corp.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1989-02-07· cited 352×
• Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396
  California Court of Appeal· 1959-09-30· cited 340×
• Adler v. American Standard Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-07-16· cited 337×
• Bowman v. State Bank of Keysville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 335×
• Nees v. Hocks
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1975-06-12· cited 305×
• Monge v. Beebe Rubber Co.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1974-02-28· cited 299×