631 So. 2d 1006 - Construction Materials v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"(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. "(b) ... [O]ne who is employed as an agent, servant or employee may agree with his employer to refrain from carrying on or engaging in similar business and from soliciting old customers of such employer within a specified county, city, or part thereof so long as the ... employer carries on a like business therein." (Emphasis added.)”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Concrete Co. v. Lambert · 823 So. 2d 659 - Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Berney Office Solutions

2. “[The statute] expresses the public policy of Alabama disfavoring contracts in restraint of trade; such contracts are disfavored because they tend not only to deprive the public of efficient service but also to impoverish the individual.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Communication Technical Systems, Inc. v. Densmore · 823 So. 2d 659 - Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Berney Office Solutions

3. “[I]n light of our public policy against restraints of lawful trade and our correspondingly strict construction of § 8-1-1, this Court... will not recognize a third-party beneficiary's right to enforce a noncompetition agreement unless § 8-1-1 mandates that we do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 823 So. 2d 659 - Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Berney Office Solutions