Saliterman v. Finney’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2013
2 district · 9 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 Cherne Industrial, Inc. v. Grounds & Associates, Inc. · Torrington Creamery, Inc. v. Davenport · Electro-Craft Corp. v. Controlled Motion, Inc. · Granger v. Craven · Cramond v. AFL-CIO
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a covenant not to compete in an employment agreement is assignable ancillary to the sale of a business to protect the goodwill of that business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The nature and background of the relationship between the parties preexisting the dispute giving rise to the request for relief. (2) The harm to be suffered by plaintiff if the temporary restraint is denied as compared to that inflicted on defendant if the injunction issues pending trial. (3) The likelihood that one party or the other will prevail on the merits when the fact situation is viewed in light of established precedents fixing the limits of equitable relief. (4) The aspects of the fact situation, if any, which permit or require consideration of public policy expressed in the statutes, State and Federal. (5) The administrative burdens involved in judicial supervision and enforcement of the temporary decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The issue here is whether a noncom-pete covenant in an employment agreement is assignable to protect the goodwill of a business that is being sold. Does it follow that goodwill protected by an employee’s covenant can be assigned? Other jurisdictions have held noncom-pete covenants are assignable as part of business assets.”
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.