Phillips v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.3d 623 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Alcatel USA, Inc. v. DGI Technologies, Inc. (1999), Wellogix, Inc. v. Accenture, L.L.P. (2013)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · Davis v. Alaska · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp. · Starnes v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trade secret is any formula, pattern, device or compilation of information used in a business, which gives the owner an opportunity to obtain an advantage over his competitors who do not know or use it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“trade secret law does not offer protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For example, A has a trade secret which he wishes to sell with or without his business. B is a prospective purchaser. In the course of negotiations, A discloses the secret to B solely for the purpose of enabling him to appraise its value. Or, A requests a loan from B, a banker, for the purpose of aiding the manufacture of a product by A’s secret process. In order to assure B about the soundness of the loan, A discloses the secret to him in confidence. In both cases B is under a duty not to disclose the secret or use it adversely to A.”
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.