Lien v. Northwestern Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Childress v. Abeles (1954), Groseth International, Inc. v. Tenneco, Inc. (1987)
7 federal appellate · 24 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 Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. · 10 Cal. 2d 442 - Great Western Distillery Products, Inc. v. John A. Wathen Distillery Co. · Dodge Stationery Co. v. Dodge · City Carpet Beating Etc. Works v. Jones · Vulcan Powder Co. v. Hercules Powder Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every contract by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind, otherwise than as provided by the next two sections, is to that extent void. Section 960:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loescher v. Policky“[e]very contract restraining exercise of a lawful profession trade or business is void to that extent, except as provided by §§ 53-9-9 to 53-9-11, inclusive.”
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.