Data General Corp. v. Digital Computer Controls, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1990
2 district · 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 Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · Lear, Inc. v. Adkins · United States v. Arnold, Schwinn & Co. · International News Service v. Associated Press · Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law of New Jersey, the place where the wrongful act of making ... an improper use by defendant of plaintiff’s trade secrets applies in determining the nature and extent of the relief to be granted plaintiff, and the fact that plaintiff has had its contract forms drawn so as to call for application of the law of Massachusetts in matters involving them is irrelevant, (emphasis added)”
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.