77 Md. App. 774 - Dworkin v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2020
6 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 Difronzo v. United States · Johnson v. State · Maryland Metals, Inc. v. Metzner · Space Aero Products Co. v. R. E. Darling Co. · McKenna v. Nevada
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.
“absent an enforceable covenant restricting competition, an employee may make arrangements to compete with his former employer before termination of his services, but he may not solicit customers or directly compete while still employed. The right to prepare to compete is limited only where the employee ‘has committed some fraudulent, unfair or wrongful act’ in the course of his preparation. Moreover, an employee is not required ‘in all cases [to] tell his employer of his future plans to become a competitor.’ Once the employment relationship is terminated, the employee may solicit his former employer’s business absent an enforceable covenant restricting competition, misuse of trade secrets, or misuse of confidential information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the extent to which the information is known outside of [the employer’s] business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in [the employer’s] business; (3) the extent of measures taken by [the employer] to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the information to [the employer] and to his competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money expended by [the employer] in developing the information; (6) the ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The appellees [in Dworkin ] resigned from appellant’s practice effective August 26, 1985 . In the months prior to their resignation, utilizing ledger cards and patient charts kept by appellant, appellees compiled a list of patients they had treated. On August 28, 1985 , appellees mailed announcements of the relocation of their practice to those patients. Enclosed with the announcements were record transfer forms to assist the patients who chose to join appellees’ new practice.”
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.