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.
“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“[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“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.