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← 762 P.2d 777 - Gibson v. Eberle

Gibson v. Eberle’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
5
states following
February 2009
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Page v. Clark · Barrows v. McMurtry Manufacturing Co. · Cantrell v. Lemons · Jorgensen Realty, Inc. v. Box · George M. Danke Co. v. Marten

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The purpose of enforcing covenants ancillary to the sale of a business is to make the good will of the business conveyed `a saleable asset by protecting the buyer in the enjoyment of that for which he pays.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he test to determine the reasonableness of such [a covenant] is whether the restraint provides a fair protection to the interests of the purchasing party in reasonably protecting that which [it] bought.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the proper test to be applied is whether the interest which the covenant was designed to protect is still outstanding in the covenantee”
    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.