Adams v. Budd Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2001
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · CIPOLLA v. Shaposka · McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · 255 Pa. Super. 28 - Reuther v. Fowler & Williams, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Pennsylvania law presumes that an employee serves at the pleasure of an employer and the relationship may be terminated by either party and at any time, absent a specific term of duration, (citations omitted). The Plaintiff may overcome this presumption by showing the parties intended the contract to be for some definite period of time or by showing that the plaintiff-employee gave the defendant-employer consideration in addition to the employee’s normal services. An employer’s “custom, practice or policy” can also create a contractual just cause requirement or contractual procedures by which the employer must abide.”
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.