91 Mich. App. 254 - Rowe v. Noren Pattern & Foundry Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. (1988), Parnar v. Americana Hotels, Inc. (1982)
10 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before holding an employment contract indefinite ... [because the contract failed to specify a term of employment], the courts will look to the intention of the parties for clues as to the intended duration of the contract, this understanding and intent of the parties to be ascertained from the written and oral negotiations of the parties, business custom and usage, the situation of the parties, the nature of the employment, and the particular circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mere fact that the contract may or may not be performed within the year does not bring it within the statute. The rule is that if, by any possibility, it is capable of being completed within a year, it is not within the statute, though the parties may have intended and thought it probable that it would extend over a longer period, and though it does so extend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e find an agreement that plaintiff would work a specific period of 45 days, after which he would be a union member and would continue working subject to the protections given in the normal union contract. The protection of a union contract is an added ingredient which is not present in ... other cases supportive of the general rule.”
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.