Kirshbaum v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably W. R. Grace & Co. v. Mouyal (1992), Fuller v. Kolb (1977)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Orkin Ex. Co. Inc., So. Georgia v. Dewberry · Shirk v. Loftis Bros. · Griffin v. Vandegriff · National Linen Service Corp. v. Clower · Bowman v. Darby
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ith respect to the territorial limitation, the employee was prohibited from soliciting the employer's customers whom he had served, and the territory would necessarily be limited to that specific area.”
2 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.