Sandlin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.2d 660 · 1944
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Hyde Corporation v. Huffines (1958), Water Technologies Corp. v. Calco, Ltd. (1988)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 Gayler v. Wilder · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Co. v. Masland · Grant v. Raymond · A. O. Smith Corp. v. Petroleum Iron Works Co. · Joseph Shaw v. Joseph Cooper
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * though a trade secret be unpatentable, it will nevertheless be protected from use or disclosure by one to whom it has been revealed in confidence. Restatement, Torts #757; Germo Mfg. Co. v. Combs, 209 Mo.App. 651, 678 , 240 S. W. 872, 881 ; Godefroy Mfg. Co. v. Lady Lennox Co., Mo.App., 134 S.W.2d 140 , 141; Luckett v. Orange Julep Co., 271 Mo. 289 , 196 S.W. 740 ; A. O. Smith Corporation v. Petroleum Iron Works Co., 6 Cir., 73 F.2d 531, 538, 539 ; Id. 6 Cir., 74 F.2d 934 ; American Dirigold Corporation v. Dirigold Metals Corporation, 6 Cir., 125 F.2d 446, 452 ; Peabody v. Norfolk, 98 Mass. 452, 458 , 96 Am.Dec. 664; Stewart v. Hook, 118 Ga. 445 , 45 S.E. 369, 370 , 63 L.R.A. 255 ; Salomon v. Hertz, 40 N.J. Eq. 400 , 2 A. 379 , 380, 381. “ ‘A trade secret may consist of any formula [process,] pattern, device or compilation of information which is used in one’s business, and which gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it.’ Restatement, Torts, #757, comment b.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact, however, that another has legitimately discovered the trade secret will not permit one to whom a confidential disclosure has been made to violate the confidence, where the matter has not been generally disclosed by any of the discoverers, so as to have become public knowledge and property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If a discovery is one which constitutes invention and for which a patent is issued, the right of further secrecy is, of course, lost, for a legal disclosure and public dedication have then been made, with a right of limited and temporary monopoly granted as the reward.””
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.