Engel v. Ernst’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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 Ferdie Sievers, Etc. v. Diversified Mortg. · Perino v. Jarvis
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was free to compete with [the partnership] after termination of [the partner’s] employment contract. [The provision] did not eliminate or stifle competition in a geographic area for a set period of time. . . . [The provision] only required that [the withdrawing partner] pay for any [partnership] clients he chose to service in the two-year period following his voluntary withdrawal. [The withdrawing partner] was free to serve these clients if he determined that it was economically advantageous for him to do so.”
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.