Fish v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2019
15 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 Maryland Metals, Inc. v. Metzner · Aetna Building Maintenance Co. v. West · Las Luminarias of the New Mexico Council of the Blind v. Isengard · 62 Ill. App. 3d 671 - ABC Trans National Transport, Inc. v. Aeronautics Forwarders, Inc. · McGlasson v. Barger
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an employee does not violate his duty of loyalty when he merely organizes a corporation during his employment to carry on a rival business after the expiration of his employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a complaint claims damages in two counts based on the same facts, only one cause of action is alleged despite the fact that the second count charges a civil conspiracy to commit the tortious acts, and only one recovery is permissible.”
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.