MAI Basic Four, Inc. v. Basis, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 286 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2012
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Harsco Corp. v. Zlotnicki · Weiss v. United States · 569 F. Supp. 1562 - Federal Screw Works v. Interface Systems, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whomever they wish, wherever they wish, and at whatever they wish, subject only to ... the requirement that [the employees] assign to [the employer] any work product relating to [the employer's] business that was developed by [the employees] while they were employed by the [employer] or shortly thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court erred in declaring the two agreements at issue in this case were void for lack of any consideration[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.