Storer v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 44 Ill. 2d 49 - Canfield v. Spear (1969), 8 Ill. 2d 351 - Bauer v. Sawyer (1956)
6 federal appellate · 33 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 Rakestraw v. Lanier · Linn v. Sigsbee · Hursen v. Gavin · Ryan v. Hamilton · Mandeville v. Harman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract is supported by a valuable consideration, the restraint imposed is limited or partial, and we do not regard the restraint to be greater than is reasonably necessary to protect the contract rights of Dr. Brock, or to be against public policy.””
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.