Raynor v. Burroughs Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2012
3 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 Lyles & Lang Construction Co. v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, and United States of America v. Lyles & Lang Construction Company · Lyon v. Pollard · 3 E.H. Smith 388 - Watson v. . Russell · All States Service Station, Inc. v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, where a contract of ordinary employment stipulates for, or where usage requires, a certain period of notice, the employment may be cancelled on shorter notice or with none at all upon payment of wages or salary for the period of notice. And it seems that if a shorter notice is given, it becomes effective at the expiration of the requisite period thereafter.”
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.