Hulen v. Earel’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2008
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Linn v. Sigsbee · Cook v. Johnson · Guerand v. Dandelet · W. W. Roller & Co. v. Ott · Gray v. . Walton
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who sells the good will of a business may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a similar business within a specified county, city or part thereof, so long as the buyer, or any person deriving title to the good will from him carries on a like business therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wall v. Chapman““It will be seen that the contract is in violation of section 820 because it is not limited ro a time during which the plaintiff should carry on a like business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wall v. Chapman
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.