187 W. Va. 337 - State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Tsapis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2018
10 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 Bibby v. United States · Kelly v. Robinson · Harris v. Amoco Production Co. · United States v. International Business Machines Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he extent to which the information is known outside of the defendant’s business; (2) [T]he extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in the defendant’s business; (3) [T]he extent of the measures taken by the defendant to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) [T]he value of the information to the defendant and competitors; (5) [T]he amount of effort or money expended by the defendant in developing the information; and (6) [T]he ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others.”
5 later decisions 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.