Wright v. Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2020
23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Jacobs v. Peterborough & Shirley Railroad · Chappel v. Brockway · Dunlop v. . Gregory · Perkins v. Lyman · Nobles v. Bates
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ' Contracts which go to the total restraint of trade, as that a man will not pursue his occupation or carry on his business anywhere in the state, are void, upon whatsoever consideration they may be made.’ ” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`an agreement in partial restraint of trade, restricting it within certain reasonable limits or times, or confining it to particular persons, would, if founded upon a good and valuable consideration, be valid '”
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.