Mabrey v. SandStream, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2026
11 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 Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc · Davis v. Huey · Butnaru v. Ford Motor Co. · MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Texas Utilities Electric Co. · Hyde Corporation v. Huffines
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent to which the information is known outside the holder’s business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in the holder’s business; (3) the extent of the measures taken by the holder to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the information to the holder and its competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money expended by the holder in developing the information; and (6) the ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others.”
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.