Young v. McKelvey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Lowndes Products Inc. v. Brower · Perfection Mattress & Spring Co. v. Dupree · 50 Md. App. 504 - Chai Management, Inc. v. Leibowitz · Berry v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Gantt v. Van Der Hoek
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employment contract may be either for a stated term or at will. When the contract is at will, it may be terminated by either party at any time. However, when the contract is for a stated term, it may only be terminated before the end of the term by just cause.... Chai Mgmt., Inc. v. Lubowitz, 50 Md.App. 504 , 439 A.2d 34 (1982).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In all employment contracts, the employee has an obligation to obey all reasonable rules, orders and instructions of his employer. As a general rule, willful disobedience will justify a recission of the employment contract and peremptory dismissal of the employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is implicit in any contract for employment that the employee shall remain faithful to the employer's interest throughout the term of employment. An employee has a duty of fidelity to his employer.”
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.