147 Mich. App. 819 - Sepanske v. Bendix Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Duncan v. Rolm Mil-Spec Computers & Loral Corp. (1990), Boynton v. TRW, Inc. (1988)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“subjective expectation does not create an enforceable contract right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here [was] no tangible basis upon which [to assess] damages where plaintiff's expectation was for an at-will position which could have been changed or from which he could have been terminated without consequence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“he had no actionable expectation that any such restoration would be permanent.”
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.