Brenner v. Stavinsky’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2010
6 federal appellate · 7 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 Colonial Laundries, Inc. v. Henry · Fulton Grand Laundry Co. v. Johnson · Garst v. Scott · Morrison v. Woodbury · Peerless Pattern Co. v. Pictorial Review Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] list of customers built up through years of effort in a line of business where such a list constitutes an important asset of business is a species of property in the nature of or comparable to a trade secret, and ... where an employee obtains such a list through confidence placed in him or surreptitiously he may be restrained from using it. This court would be loath to say, however, that the use by a former employee of his memory independent of any compiled list could be restrained, in the absence of a contract to the contrary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“equity will not interfere with the right of defendants to do business with these customers but may forbid the initiation or solicitation of business by the use of”
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.