Chamberlain v. Augustine’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 62 Cal. 2d 239 - Muggill v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (1965), 44 Cal. 4th 937 - Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (2008)
11 federal appellate · 30 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 Merchants' Ad-Sign Co. v. Sterling
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statute makes no exception in favor of contracts only in partial restraint of trade.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“imposes upon him a liability in the sum of five thousand dollars if he does engage in such business. If the contract is valid, he is not as free to do so as he would have been if he were not bound by it. To the extent that the necessity of paying five thousand dollars deters him from engaging therein, he would be restrained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to act as laborer or molder in various foundries,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.