Norlund v. Faust’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 24 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Merchants Insurance Company of New Hampshire Inc v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co (1998), Boardman Petroleum, Inc. v. Federated Mutual Insurance (1998)
16 federal appellate · 24 district · 52 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 Trubowitch v. Riverbank Canning Co. · DeHaan v. DeHaan · Raymundo v. Hammond Clinic Ass'n · Jenkins v. King · Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners v. Rittenhouse
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employer may not simply forbid his employee from subsequently operating a similar business. The employer must have an interest which he is trying to legitimately protect. There must be some reason why it would be unfair to allow the employee to compete with the former employer. The employee should only be enjoined if he has gained some advantage at the employer’s expense which would not be available to the general public.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(ilt would be pure speculation to place a dollar amount on the damages, and an injunction against the prohibited behavior is the most efficient way to lift the burden of that harm from the shoulders of the employer who contracted so as not to suffer such harm.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Indiana, the law recognizes a protectible interest in the good will generated between a customer and a business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.