Ruinello v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. (1988), 116 Cal. App. 3d 311 - Pugh v. See's Candies, Inc. (1981)
10 federal appellate · 94 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 29 Cal. 2d 34 - Speegle v. Board of Fire Underwriters · Seymour v. Oelrichs · Monarco v. Lo Greco · Wing v. Forest Lawn Cemetery Assn. · 12 Cal. 2d 334 - Long v. Rumsey
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily a contract for permanent employment, for life employment, ... is interpreted as a contract for an indefinite period terminable at the will of either party, unless it is based on some consideration other than the services to be rendered.”
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.