Schalk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2012
2 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 194th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Marron v. United States
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.
“Non-disclosure Agreements 1) non-disclosure agreements signed by all new employees when hired; 2) exit interviews with terminating employees to emphasize non-disclosure of confidential information; Plant Security 3) identification badges to prevent unauthorized personnel from entering certain areas; 4) use of security guards and closed-circuit television monitors; 5) entry to speech lab limited to small number of total TI personnel; speech lab physically located in separate wing or building; 6) print-outs and hard copies of data were to be kept out of sight and nighttime security checks were conducted for data left out on desks; data found during such checks was subject to security report; Computer Software Security 7) issuance of computer passwords or access codes so that data stored in restricted directories was not available to unauthorized personnel; all access required certain code clearance or password information before the computer would respond; Other Measures 8) TI Trade Secret Register referred to "speech processing"; 9) general reference to admonitions to lab personnel to protect software developed in the lab.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Schalk v. State · Schalk v. State“Trade Secret Listing for Termination of Employment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Schalk v. State · Schalk v. State“measures to prevent [the information] from becoming available to persons other than those selected by the owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schalk v. State
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.