Deramo v. Consolidated Rail Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2011
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Easton v. United States · 255 Pa. Super. 28 - Reuther v. Fowler & Williams, Inc. · Bonham v. Dresser Industries, Inc. · Bruffett v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Wolk v. Saks Fifth Avenue 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the common thread is that the plaintiffs were complaining of discrimination viola-tive of state and federal anti-discrimination statutes_ [I]n contrast ... Mr. DeRamo’s allegations of age discrimination are independent of the allegations for his breach of contract claim. In other words, Mr. DeRamo is not asserting a violation of public policy as the sole source of both a tort exception and an implied-contract (sic) exception to the at-will, employment doctrine. To the contrary, Mr. DeRamo’s breach of contract claim is based on his detrimental reliance upon representations made by defendants .... When viewed in this context, the “Bonham” cases are inapposite [sic] in that those cases deal only with the public policy tort exception. Similarly, unlike the plaintiffs in the Bonham line of cases, it is entirely possible for Mr. DeRamo to succeed on his breach of contract claim without proving discrimination. In short, plaintiff’s age discrimination claim and his breach of contract claim are factually different....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“bar only causes of action whose factual underpinnings are grounded exclusively in the public policy tort theory of wrongful discharge. They do not bar recovery for claims grounded in the contract theory, a theory which requires a factual predicate independent of any alleged breach of public policy.”
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.