Granger v. Craven’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Bennett v. Storz Broadcasting Co. (1965), 8 Ill. 2d 351 - Bauer v. Sawyer (1956)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Voigt · Mandeville v. Harman · Eureka Laundry Co. v. Long · Menter Co. v. Brock · James Quirk Milling Co. v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * As to area, the considerations arising from the speed and convenience of modern facilities of communication and transportation put equally beyond question the exclusion of defendant from Rochester and the territory within a radius of-20 miles. “The test is one of reasonableness. Such a contract is not unlawful if the restriction is no more than necessary to afford fair protection to the covenantee and is not injurious to the interests of the public. The restraint put on defendant by his contract meets the test of reasonableness at all points. It protects a legitimate interest in a legitimate manner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lassen v. Benton““The usual and most important function of courts of justice is rather to maintain and enforce contracts than to enable parties thereto to escape their obligation on the pretext of public policy, unless it clearly appears that they contravene public right or the public welfare.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaleen v. Stratte
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.