Warner-Lambert Co. v. Execuquest Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Schaer v. Brandeis University (2000), Marram v. Kobrick Offshore Fund, Ltd. (2004)
6 federal appellate · 16 district · 99 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 Conley v. Gibson · United States v. Morton Salt Co. · International News Service v. Associated Press · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Nader v. Citron
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent to which the information is known outside of the business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employ ees and others involved in the business; (3) the extent of measures taken by the employer to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the information to the employer and to his competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money expended by the employer in developing the information; and (6) the ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We further have recognized that confidential and proprietary business information may be entitled to protection, even if such information cannot claim trade secret protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether a corporation has a corporate right to privacy entitled to the protection of [Massachusetts privacy right law]”
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.