273 Ill. App. 3d 681 - Dowell v. Bitner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 331 Ill. App. 3d 777 - Delta Medical Systems v. Mid-America Medical Systems, Inc. (2002), 352 Ill. App. 3d 365 - Dowd and Dowd, Ltd. v. Gleason (2004)
30 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 76 Ill. 2d 427 - Burtell v. First Charter Service Corp. · 159 Ill. 2d 507 - Geise v. Phoenix Co. of Chicago, Inc. · In re Marriage of Rodriguez · 134 Ill. App. 3d 792 - Lakeview Trust & Savings Bank v. Estrada · 111 Ill. App. 3d 751 - Graham v. Mimms
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Corporate officers owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty to their corporate employer not to actively exploit their positions within the corporation for their own personal benefit or hinder the ability of a corporation to continue the business for which it was developed .... But former general employees may compete with their former employers absent a contractual restrictive covenant, provided there was no demonstrable business activity before termination of employment.”
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.