29 Ohio App. 3d 254 - Snarr v. Picker Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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.

1. ““ ‘[t]he absence or presence of limitations as to time and space, * * * whether the employee represents the sole contact with the customer; whether the employee is possessed with confidential information or trade secrets; whether the covenant seeks to eliminate competition which would be unfair to the employer or merely seeks to eliminate ordinary competition; whether the covenant seeks to stifle the inherent skill and experience of the employee; whether the benefit to the employer is disproportional to the detriment to the employee; whether the covenant operates as a bar to the employee’s sole means of support; whether the employee’s talent which the employer seeks to suppress was actually developed during the period of employment; and whether the forbidden employment is merely incidental to the main employment.’ ” Raimonde v. Van Vlerah, 42 Ohio St.2d 21, 25 , 325 N.E.2d 544, 547 (1975).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 664 F. Supp. 1533 - Wolcott v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

2. ““(1) Damages for breach by either party may be liquidated in the agreement but only at an amount that is reasonable in the light of the anticipated or actual loss caused by the breach and the difficulties of proof of loss. A term fixing unreasonably large liquidated damages is unenforceable on grounds of public policy as a penalty.” Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 85 Ohio App. 3d 737 - USS Great Lakes Fleet, Inc. v. Spitzer Great Lakes, Ltd.