Wesley v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 federal appellate · 22 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 · Trenton Potteries Co. v. Oliphant · Gregory v. Spieker · Bishop v. Palmer · Fraley, Adm'r v. Wilkinson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Partners may, upon or in anticipation of a dissolution of the partnership, agree that none of them will carry on a similar business within the same city or town where the partnership business has been transacted, or within a specified part thereof. (R. L. 1910, §980).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]very contract by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Every contract by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind, otherwise than as provided by the next two sections, is to that extent void. “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 carried on a like business therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clare v. Palmer
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.