260 Pa. Super. 537 - Witmer v. Exxon Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Witmer v. Exxon Corp. (1981), 300 Pa. Super. 117 - Provident Credit Corp. v. Young (1982)
40 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Razumic · Riley v. Boynton Coal Co. · Pittsburgh v. Charles Zubik & Sons, Inc. · Kowatch v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 194 Pa. Super. 413 - Routman v. Bohm
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no explicit termination clause ..., a franchisee indeed has a reasonable expectation that the relationship will not be terminated arbitrarily without cause. However, when the actions of the franchisor are within plain and explicit enabling clauses of the lease, we find it impossible to say that the reasonable expectations of the franchisee have been violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nothing in subsection (b) shall prohibit termination, cancellation, or failure to renew:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.