Henshaw v. Kroenecke’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp. (1990), Juliette Fowler Homes, Inc. v. Welch Associates, Inc. (1990)
5 federal appellate · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Stewart v. Basey · Weatherford Oil Tool Company v. Campbell · Dennis v. Dial Finance & Thrift Company · Electronic Data Systems Corp. v. Powell · Hospital Consultants, Inc. v. Potyka
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement on the part of an employee not to compete with his employer after termination of the employment is in restraint of trade and will not be enforced in accordance with its terms unless the same are reasonable. Where the public interest is not directly involved, the test usually stated for determining the validity of the covenant as written is whether it imposes on the employee any greater restraint than is reasonably necessary to protect the business and good will of the employer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Henshaw had a right to protect himself from the possibility that Kroenecke would establish a rapport with the clients of the business and upon termination take a segment of that clientele with him.... Henshaw had a legitimate interest to protect, and therefore, the covenant was reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question of whether a covenant not to compete is reasonable is a legal question for the court.”
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.