Mattison v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 89 Md. App. 448 - Fowler v. Printers II, Inc. (1991), Johnson v. Elson (1998)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 30 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 Donnelly Const. Co. v. Oberg/Hunt/Gilleland · Kadis v. . Britt · 138 Ill. App. 3d 1045 - McRand, Inc. v. Van Beelen · George W. Kistler, Inc. v. O'BRIEN · Fairway Builders, Inc. v. Malouf Towers Rental Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employment contract ... may be only partially terminable at will. Thus it may leave the employment at the employee’s option but provide that he is under a continuing obligation not to engage in competition with his former employer. Under these circumstances a defendant engaged in the same business might induce the employee to quit his job, but he would not be justified in engaging the employee to work for him in an activity that would mean violation of the contract not to compete.”
2 later decisions 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.