413 So. 2d 1141 - DeVoe v. Cheatham’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably 434 So. 2d 1380 - James S. Kemper & Co. v. Cox & Associates (1983), 502 So. 2d 689 - Calhoun v. Brendle, Inc. (1986)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Hill v. Rice · Cullman Broadcasting Co. v. Bosley · 346 So. 2d 940 - Robinson v. Computer Servicenters, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. the restriction is reasonably related to that interest;”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Every contract by which anyone is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind otherwise than is provided by this section is to that extent void.”
13 later decisions 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.