Commodore v. Armour & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Sweet v. Stormont Vail Regional Medical Center (1982), Augusta Medical Complex, Inc. v. Blue Cross of Kansas, Inc. (1981)
10 district · 24 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 Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · In re Public Ledger, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Kinzer · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Employment Security Board of Review · Hall v. Kansas City Terra Cotta Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion separation pay, under the terms of the [employment] agreement before us, constitutes wages. Though correlated with his past employment, plaintiff could acquire no right thereto until his employment was terminated under conditions in conformance with the other requirements of the agreement. Plaintiff’s right to separation pay, when he signed the note and power of attorney, was at best contingent and never due and payable until termination of his employment and then only if termination be under such conditions that it became payable according to the terms of the agreement. (Talberth v. Guy Gannett Publishing Co., [1953] 149 Me. 286 , 100 A.2d 726 , 40 A.L.R.2d 1036 .) “Under the terms of the agreement in question, plaintiff’s continuing, in a satisfactory manner, his services in Armour’s employment was an important part of the consideration for separation pay. He was paid weekly wages for his ordinary services. Separation pay constituted additional wages for continuing in employment until termination under conditions in compliance with the requirements of the agreement. It was not collectible nor was it fully earned until plaintiff met the required conditions, which occurred after adjudication. Entitlement to separation pay required substantial services by way of continued employment and termination thereof under the required conditions on the part of plaintiff subsequent to his adjudication in bankruptcy.” p. 421.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are cognizant that no particular form is necessary to effect a valid assignment in Kansas (Hall v. Terra Cotta Co., 97 Kan. 108 , 154 Pac. 210 ) and that assignments of accounts, sums due or to become due, including wages or any chose in action, except one arising in tort, are recognized and enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Hayes
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.