Lavey v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t should afford only a fair protection to the interests of the party in whose favor it is made, and must not be so large in its operation as to interfere with the interests of the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so as to make the extent and character of its operation reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Employer Protection Against Loss of the Key Employee,”
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.