Williams v. Compressor Engineering Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2018
19 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 Little Rock Furniture Manufacturing Co. v. Dunn · C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell · Weatherford Oil Tool Company v. Campbell · Federal Trade Commission v. Simplicity Pattern Co. · K & G Oil Tool & Service Co. v. G & G Fishing Tool Service
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Texas courts clearly recognize the right of an employer to insist that the nondisclosure provisions of his contract with an employee be specifically enforced.... Proof that trade secrets will be used by the employee in competition against his former employer afford support for an injunction specifically enforcing the non-competition covenant. This is usually the only way use of the secret by the former employee can be prevented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For a verdict to be set aside, the conflicting answers must be such that one answer would establish a cause of action or defense, while the other would destroy it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnett v. Rios
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.