Noell’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2022
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Hummell v. S. E. Rykoff & Co. · Lojek v. Thomas · Dumont v. United States · Mass Appraisal Services, Inc. v. Carmichael · Flagg-Utica Corporation v. City of Florence
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the forfeiture clause to have meaning [if and were read jointly], an employee would first have to be guilty of theft, fraud or embezzlement, he would then have to disclose or release to third parties the employer’s trade secrets, and then he would have to go to work for a competitor. It would be unreasonable to conclude that an employer, who has provided its employees with benefits in excess of those required by law, would place such an onerous burden on itself with respect to the termination of the benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and vice versa, in order to carry out the evident intent of the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.