Commonwealth v. Eiseman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Commercial or financial information received by an agency: (1) which is privileged or confidential; and (2) the disclosure of which would cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person that submitted the information.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crouthamel v. Dep't of Transp. · Mission PA, LLC v. W. McKelvey

2. “[i]nformation including a formula, drawing, pattern, compilation ... a customer list, program, device, method, technique or process that: (1) derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; [and] (2) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith Ex Rel. Smith Butz, LLC v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection · Lyft, Inc. v. Pa PUC K. Lyons and PG Publishing, Inc. d/b/a The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette v. Pa PUC

3. “actual secret of peculiar importance to the business and constitute competitive value to the owner.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crouthamel v. Dep't of Transp. · West Chester University of PA v. B. Schackner and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Bravo Group, Inc.