Data Management, Inc. v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2018
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 Raimonde v. Van Vlerah · Rector-Phillips-Morse, Inc. v. Vroman · Licocci v. Cardinal Associates, Inc. · Rollins Protective Services Co. v. Palermo · Bess v. Bothman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a need to strike a balance between protecting the rights of parties to enter into contracts, and the need to protect parties from illegal contracts. Obliterating all overbroad covenants not to compete, regardless of their factual settings, is too mechanistic and may produce unduly harsh results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“anywhere in England,” the whole provision would be void because the quoted clause cannot be narrowed by deleting any words. On the other hand, if the seller promised not to compete”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the covenant Would be enforceable as to London because”
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.