Haney v. Laub’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2013
6 district · 6 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 United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · 33 Del. Ch. 69 - Kerbs v. California Eastern Airways, Inc. · 33 Del. Ch. 82 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · Jorgensen v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Beard v. Elster
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law governing oral contracts of employment for an indeterminate term is well settled. A hiring for an indeterminate period is a hiring at will and, consequently, is terminable at the will of either party with or without cause. Drake v. Hercules Powder Co., Del.Super., 5 Terry 69 , 44 Del. 69 , 55 A.2d 630 (1946); Greer v. Arlington Mills Mfg. Co., Del.Super., 1 Pennewill 581 , 43 A. 609 (1899).”
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.