Smithereen Co. v. Renfroe’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall (1988), 138 Ill. App. 3d 1045 - McRand, Inc. v. Van Beelen (1985)
32 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 Sherman v. Pfefferkorn · May v. Young · Samuel Stores, Inc. v. Abrams · Economy Grocery Stores Corp. v. McMenamy · Linn v. Sigsbee
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From this evidence it is clear that the defendant has violated his contractual obligation not to engage in competition with the business of plaintiff; that the defendant is availing himself of information with respect to the names of customers and the methods, formulae, etc., used by the plaintiff in its business; and that the defendant is using this personal, if not altogether confidential information acquired during his employment with the plaintiff for his own personal benefit. This defendant should not be shielded by a court of equity from the deliberate violation of his contractual obligation, when it is apparent that such conduct involves the appropriation and misuse of information entrusted to him in the course of employment to which the contract relates.” 325 Ill. App. 229, 243 , 59 N.E.2d 545, 550 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The defendant’s position as branch manager of the north side branch of the plaintiff and the fact that he had previously worked out of other offices of the plaintiff, together with his having acquired knowledge,of the methods and processes used by the plaintiff, gave the defendant confidential information that should not have been divulged to others or .used for his own benefit.”. (325 IlLApp. 229, 242.)”
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.