Unitel Corp. v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2024
10 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 Weatherford Oil Tool Company v. Campbell · Hill v. Mobile Auto Trim, Inc. · Henshaw v. Kroenecke · Hartwell's Office World, Inc. v. Systex Corp. · Electronic Data Systems Corp. v. Powell
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.
“1.The covenant must be necessary for the protection of the promisee. “That is to say, the promisee must have a legitimate interest in protecting business goodwill or trade secrets.” 2. The covenant must not be oppressive to the promisor, as courts are hesitant to validate employee covenants when the employee has nothing but his labor to sell. 3. The covenant must not be injurious to the public, since courts are reluctant to enforce covenants which prevent competition and deprive the community of needed goods. 4. The promisee must give consideration for something of value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a. a contract existing that was subject to interference; b. the act of interference was willful and intentional; c. such intentional and willful act was a proximate cause of plaintiffs damage; and d. actual damages or loss occurred.”
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.