Vincent v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Adler v. American Standard Corp. (1981), Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. (1978)
6 federal appellate · 18 district · 129 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 Chicago Co v. State of Nebraska City of Omaha · Whiteside v. United States · Union Pac Ry Co v. Harris · Utley v. Donaldson · Savage Arms Corporation v. United States
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is obvious that a party to a contract has no right to abrogate or modify it merely because he finds, in the light of changed conditions, that he made a bad deal. No court should undertake to redraft a contract merely because one of the parties has become dissatisfied with its provisions.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a contract does not mention the period of employment, and the claim of the employee is based upon `continuous employment,' indicating one entire contract, even though the work may be interrupted from time to time, the statute will not run until the completion of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[N]o action will lie on the breach of a contract of employment unless there is a definite time fixed for the continuance of the employment. The reason for the rule is that the hiring would be one merely at will and could be terminated at the pleasure of either party.” (Citations omitted.)”
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.