Paramount Termite Control Co. v. Rector’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Ward's Equipment, Inc. v. New Holland North America, Inc. (1997), Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc. v. PRC Inc. (1998)
6 federal appellate · 59 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 Sireci v. Florida · Berry v. Klinger · Tuggle v. Commonwealth · Roanoke Engineering Sales Co. v. Rosenbaum · Hercules Powder Co. v. Brookfield.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Is the restraint, from the standpoint of the employer, reasonable in the sense that it is no greater than is necessary to protect the employer in some legitimate business interest? (2) From the standpoint of the employee, is the restraint reasonable in the sense that it is not unduly harsh and oppressive in curtailing his [or her] legitimate efforts to earn a livelihood? (3) Is the restraint reasonable from the standpoint of a sound public policy? Paramount Termite Control Co. v. Rector, 380 S.E.2d 922, 924 (Va. 1989).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not necessary that ‘the employees actually had acquired or possessed specific information that could be legally defined as confidential or a trade secret’ .... [N] on-competition agreements are also justified where the employee comes into personal contact with his employer’s customers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We read the language used so as to give meaning to all the words; otherwise stated, we do not regard any language as meaningless, unless compelled to do so.”
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.