Miller v. Sevamp, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the at-will employment doctrine is not absolute because additional compensation can exist that takes the employment out of the at-will category
• finding an at-will employment relationship when the employment contract contained “no provisions from which a fixed period of intended duration can fairly be inferred”
• finding no wrongful discharge where an employee testified against her supervisor in a grievance hearing because “such a retaliatory act would impinge only upon private rights established by the employer’s internal regulations”
• at-will employment contract may be terminated by either party “for any reason, or for no reason”
• “The exception we recognized was not so broad as to make actionable those discharges of at-will employees which violate only private rights or interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

135 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hung P. Nguyen v. Cna Corporation
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-01-20· cited 292×
• Karen Balas v. Huntington Ingalls Industries
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-03-15· cited 254×
• Nancy Loftus v. David Bobzien
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-02-08· cited 227×
• Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 165×
• Lockhart v. Commonwealth Education Systems Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-01-07· cited 125×
• Magnuson v. Peak Technical Services, Inc.
  E.D. Virginia· 1992-12-02· cited 93×
• Elliott v. Shore Stop, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 68×
• Page v. Columbia Natural Resources, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-12-06· cited 66×
• Lawrence Chrysler Plymouth Corp. v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-01-12· cited 64×
• Doss v. Jamco, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-10-31· cited 58×
• Mitchem v. Counts
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 57×
• City of Virginia Beach v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 46×
• Haigh v. Matsushita Elec. Corp. of America
  E.D. Virginia· 1987-12-28· cited 46×
• Dray v. New Market Poultry Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-09-17· cited 45×
• Holland v. Rimmer
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-06-13· cited 45×
• Atkins v. Industrial Telecommunications Ass'n
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-06-05· cited 44×
• Progress Printing Co., Inc. v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 42×
• Steven H. Lawrence v. Mars, Incorporated
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-03-02· cited 40×
• White v. Federal Express Corp.
  E.D. Virginia· 1990-01-30· cited 39×
• Pat Choate v. Trw, Inc
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-02-04· cited 35×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bowman v. State Bank of Keysville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 335×
• Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. O'NEAL
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-12-03· cited 103×
• Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-05-01· cited 55×
• Town of Vinton v. City of Roanoke
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-03-15· cited 36×
• Title Insurance v. Howell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-06-16· cited 34×
• Twohy v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-09-10· cited 29×
• Hoffman Specialty Co. v. Pelouze
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-06-16· cited 29×
• Plaskitt v. Black Diamond Trailer Company
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-12-06· cited 27×
• D. Buchanan & Son v. Ewell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1927-09-29· cited 9×