Triple D & E, Inc. v. Van Buren’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on M. O'Neil Supply Co. v. Petroleum Heat & Power Co. · Campbell Soup Co. v. Lojeski · Walker Memorial Baptist Church, Inc. v. Saunders · Super Maid Cook-Ware Corp. v. Hamil · Heldman v. Douglas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Restrictive covenant will not be enforced where effect would be to protect plaintiff from ordinary competition rather than to protect plaintiff's business against competition by improper and unfair methods.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to do an unlawful thing, or to do a lawful thing in an unlawful manner,”
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.