Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Murrell’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably McLeod v. Meyer (1963), Evans Laboratories, Inc. v. Melder (1978)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Robbins v. Plant · Witmer v. Arkansas Dailies, Inc. · Edgar Lumber Co. v. Cornie Stave Co. · Quincy Oil Co. v. Sylvester · American Excelsior Laundry Company v. Derrisseaux
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contract in restraint of trade is valid when founded on a valuable consideration, if the restraint imposed is reasonable as between the parties and not injurious to the public by reason of its effect upon trade. Whether or not the restraint is reasonable is to be determined by considering whether it is such only as to afford a fair protection to the interest of the party in whose favor it is given, and not so large as to interfere with the interests of the public.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“had access to all records, customer lists and credit rating.”
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.