366 Pa. Super. 1 - Marsh v. Boyle’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Schoch v. First Fidelity Bancorporation (1990), 401 Pa. Super. 467 - Yetterant v. Ward Trucking Corp. (1991)
8 federal appellate · 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 Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · 350 Pa. Super. 183 - Darlington v. General Electric · 363 Pa. Super. 534 - Greene v. Oliver Realty, Inc. · Novosel v. Nationwide Insurance · 357 Pa. Super. 85 - Veno v. Meredith
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant left his employment as circulation manager of the Lewistown Sentinel to begin working at an increased salary for Appellees as publisher of the Clarion News. It was Appellant’s understanding that he would be working for a period of time along with the current publisher, who was about to retire. The date of the current publisher’s retirement was never established. Appellant was informed at the time of hiring that he would work in Clarion as publisher for ‘at least two years' and thereafter would become general manager in Oil City, a position Appellant desired because it would result in a pay increase and because Oil City was Appellant’s childhood home. Appellant placed his house in Lewistown for sale and relocated to Clarion to commence his employment on October 28, 1985. Appellant’s family remained in Lewistown and his home there was not sold prior to his dismissal at the Clarion News on January 29, 1986. In the case before us, the employer’s assurances that Appellant would be working as publisher "for at least two years” was not sufficiently definite to take the agreement out of the at-will employment presumption. Appellant, nevertheless, relies on the surrounding circumstances, particularly his resignation from his position with the Lewistown paper, his move to Clarion and his act of placing his house on the market as establishing sufficient consideration to rebut the at-will presumption. Appellant seeks to prove that the parties’ discussion as to the terms of his ”
2 later decisions 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.