Jones v. Deeter’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 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 Hansen v. Edwards
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably necessary to protect the business and goodwill of the employer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“covenant [was] per se unreasonable and therefore, unenforceable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] restraint of trade is unreasonable ... if it is greater than is required for the protection of the person for whose benefit the restraint is imposed.”
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.