Whittenberg v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 101 So. 2d 123 - West Shore Restaurant Corp. v. Turk (1958), Smithereen Co. v. Renfroe (1945)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 31 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 Samuel Stores, Inc. v. Abrams · Barrows v. McMurtry Manufacturing Co. · American Weekly, Inc. v. Patterson · Jewel Tea Co. v. Watkins · Axelson v. Columbine Laundry Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where one is so lost to a sense of moral obligation as to accept a full consideration for his stock in trade and good-will, upon express condition that he refrain from again entering that business for a limited time, within a certain territory, and then immediately, having pocketed the fruits of the agreement, deliberately and wilfully ignores the controlling condition thereof, courts should certainly not hunt for legal excuse to uphold him in such moral delinquency." Barrows v. McMurtry Mfg. Co., 54 Colo. 432, 449 , 131 P. 430 , 436.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It thus appears that defendant entered into an apparently valid contract, then intentionally, openly, and publicly violated it, and at the same time sought to make profit out of that violation. Equity and good conscience can speak no word in his behalf.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that portion of Colorado south of the northern boundary of the City and County of Denver and east of the Rocky Mountains.”
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.