Cottington v. Swan’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2010
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Oregon Steam Navigation Company v. Winsor · Linn v. Sigsbee · Beal v. Chase · Hubbard v. Miller · Cook v. Johnson
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.
““The vital question in the consideration of every such contract is whether the restraint imposed is reasonable under the circumstances with reference to ‘the situation, business, and objects of the parties,’ and if ‘the restraint contracted for appears to have been for a just and honest purpose, for the protection of the legitimate interests of the party in whose favor it is imposed, reasonable as between them and not specially injurious to the public, the restraint will be held valid.’ ””
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.