Nickell v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2009
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Covenants in partial restraint of trade are now generally upheld as valid when they are agreements by a seller of business not to compete with the buyer in such a way as to decrease the value of the business; by a retiring partner not to compete with the firm; by a retiring partner not to do anything to hinder the business of the partnership; by an assistant or agent not to compete with his master or his employer after the expiration of his term of service; by the buyer of property not to use it in competition with the business retained by the seller; or an agreement made by the lessor of property not to use it in competition with the business of the lessee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Durham v. Lewis
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.