Herreshoff v. Boutineau’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably United States v. Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. (1898), Samuel Stores, Inc. v. Abrams (1919)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Diamond Match Co. v. . Roeber · Oregon Steam Navigation Company v. Winsor
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That to some extent at least, such contracts help rather than harm both, public interests and private welfare; that they are necessary to trade itself, in order to secure the sale, at fair value, of an established business, by protecting it against the immediate competition of the seller; also to enable one to learn a trade or get employment from another, free from the risk of having the knowledge and influence thus gained used to the employer’s damage; to encourage investment in business enterprises under reasonable safeguards; and for other equally evident reasons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freudenthal v. Espey
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.