Lee v. Cercoa, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2012
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Ferroline Corp. v. General AniLine & Film Corp. · 415 So. 2d 733 - Unistar Corp. v. Child · Greenberg v. Croydon Plastics Co., Inc. · 89 Ill. App. 3d 908 - Packard Instrument Co. v. Reich · Microbiological Research Corp. v. Muna
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the process is a secret, (b) the extent to which the information is known outside of the owner’s business, (c) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in the owner’s business, (d) the extent of measures taken by the owner to guard the secrecy of the information, (e) the value of the information to the owner and to his competitors, (f) the amount of effort or money expended by the owner in developing the information, and (g) the ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellant argues that appellee failed to sustain its burden to establish that the foregoing were trade secrets, since, so he argues, all the information was published in literature or patented and the techniques and processes were known to others in this field. While the evidence to which appellant points would support an inference that many of the major elements of the appellee's process are the same as those known to others in this field, it is also sufficient to support the court's factual findings that the combination of elements into a complicated production process amounted to a trade secret and not merely a variation of a general process, see Ferroline Corp. v. General Aniline & Film Corp., [ 207 F.2d 912, 917 (7th Cir.1953)] and that the appellant made a reasonable attempt to safeguard its process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where an employee acquires, during the course of his employment, a special technique or process developed by his employer, the employee is under a duty, even in the absence of an express contractual provision, not to disclose such skills, techniques or processes ... for his own or another’s benefit to the detriment of his previous employer.”
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.