Ward v. Process Control Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 250 Ga. App. 317 - Advance Technology Consultants, Inc. v. RoadTrac, LLC (2001), 186 Ga. App. 27 - National Consultants, Inc. v. Burt (1988)
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Durham v. Stand-By Labor of Georgia, Inc. · Taylor Freezer Sales Co. v. Sweden Freezer Eastern Corp. · Tv Tempo v. Tv Venture · Kloville, Inc. v. Kinsler · DIXIE PLYWOOD COMPANY OF ATLANTA, INC. v. Brown
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any covenant not to compete within a given employment contract is unreasonable either in time, territory, or prohibited business activity, then all covenants not to compete within the same employment contract are unenforceable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a covenant not to compete and a covenant not to disclose confidential information may be independently maintained under the same employment contract”
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.