A. Booth & Co. v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
127 F. 875 · 1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1942
1 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · United States v. E. C. Knight Co. · Oregon Steam Navigation Company v. Winsor · Hendrick v. Lindsay
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Instrument witnessetb, that William Vernon Booth has purchased the plant, business and good will of the business of the Davis Fresh & Salt Fish Co., and has paid therefor the sum of $17,473.14; that in making said transfer, and as an inducement to said William Vernon Booth to purchase said plant, business and good will and pay the sum aforesaid for the same, we each have agreed that we would not, and we now do agree, each for himself, jointly and severally with him, the said William Vernon Booth, his heirs and assigns, forever, that we will not, during the next ten years, in the territory or the immediate vicinity of the territory dealt in by our company, or operated in by ourselves or the agents or employees of the company engage or in any manner be interested in, either directly or indirectly, for ourselves or for others, the sam® or like kind or character of business as that heretofore conducted and now being carried on by said company, its officers, agents, employees and assigns, and that we will not. during the said period of ten (10) years, either directly or indirectly, be guilty of any act interfering with the business, its good will, its trade or its customers, or come in competition with the same; and we will not, jointly or severally either in firms or corporations, or as individuals or in any other way, directly or indirectly interfere with the said trade or business, or do any act prejudicial to the same or any part thereof, or interfere with the persons em”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Covenants in partial restraint of trade 'are generally upheld as valid when they are agreements by the seller of property or business not to compete with the buyer in such way as to derogate from the value of the property or business sold.””
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.