Hursen v. Gavin’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 225 Ill. 2d 52 - Mohanty v. St. John Heart Clinic, S.C. (2006), 37 Ill. 2d 32 - House of Vision, Inc. v. Hiyane (1967)
3 federal appellate · 53 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHursen v. Gavin
Relationships
Relies on Oregon Steam Navigation Company v. Winsor · Linn v. Sigsbee · Dean v. Emerson · Peltz v. Eichele · Wiley v. Baumgardner
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ A contract in restraint of trade is thus total and general when by it a party binds himself not to carry on his trade or business at all, or not to pursue it within the limits of a particular country or State. Such a general contract in restraint of trade necessarily works an injury to the public at large and to the party himself in the respects indicated and is, therefore, against public policy.””
3 later decisions 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.