Lassen v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2006
21 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 140 Ohio St. 499 - Briggs v. Butler · Granger v. Craven · Henderson v. Jacobs · Freudenthal v. Espey · 6 Ill. App. 2d 178 - Bauer v. Sawyer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * the Second Party hereby agrees that he will not practice Veterinary Medicine or establish, or work in any small animal hospital within twelve (12) miles of the City Limits of the City of Mesa, Arizona for a period of five (5) years from the date of termination."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The law is well settled that a restrictive covenant which is ancillary to a valid employment contract and which is not unreasonable in its limitations should be upheld in the absence of a showing of bad faith or of contravening public policy. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The judgment is reversed with directions to enforce the covenant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lassen v. Benton
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.