84 Mo. App. 367 - Gordon v. Mansfield’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1966
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Linn v. Sigsbee · Sylvester Coal Co. v. City of St. Louis · Wiggins Ferry Co. v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Dwight v. Hamilton · State Savings Bank v. Kercheval
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not think the covenant is invalid if no time is therein specified during which the defendant is not to re-engage in the practice of his profession in the limits of the city and county designated.” (Gordon v. Mansfield, 84 Mo. App. 367, 377 .) Sustaining an injunction without time limit, gave rise to the following statement in French v. Parker (16 R. I. 219, 220, 221; 14 A. 870, 871 ):”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. White
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.