Wilson v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably New Castle Orthopedic Associates v. Burns (1978), Foltz v. Struxness (1950)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Sivley v. Cramer · Townsend v. Hurst
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a bargain by an assistant, servant, or agent not to compete with his employer, or principal, during the term of the employment or agency, or thereafter, within such territory and during such time as may be reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer or principal, without imposing undue hardship on the employee or agent,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the number of physicians in Greenville is amply sufficient ..., no monopoly was either contemplated by the contracts or will result from their enforcement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless effecting, or forming part of a plan to effect, a monopoly.”
1 later decision 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.