Murray v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1976
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Clark Paper & Manufacturing Co. v. Stenacher · Kaumagraph Co. v. . Stampagraph Co. · Foster v. White · Interstate Tea Co. v. Alt. · Lantieri Beauty Salon, Inc. v. Yale
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of any findings of specific misconduct by the defendant, we are constrained to hold that it is against the public policy of the State of New York to enforce contracts which in the absence of special circumstances prevent a person working at his occupation or entering the same line of business as that of his former employer.”
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.