Kristt v. Whelan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Lucente v. International Business Machines Corp. (2002), Sarnoff v. American Home Products Corp. (1986)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Roddy v. Valentine · Albring v. New York Central and Hudson River Rail. Co. · Gearns v. Commercial Cable Co. · Simons v. Fried · Jones v. Valentine
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is no unreasonable restriction of the liberty of a man to earn his living if he may be relieved of the restriction by forfeiting a contract right or by adhering to the provisions of his contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The provision for forfeiture here involved did not bar plaintiff from other employment. He had the choice of preserving his rights under the trust by refraining from competition with . [his employer] ... or risking forfeiture of such rights by exercising his right to compete with . . . [the employer]. (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.