Dynamics Research Corp. v. Analytic Sciences Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Cvd, Incorporated v. Raytheon Company, and Third-Party (1985), 13 Mass. App. Ct. 310 - Kroeger v. Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. (1982)
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 23 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 2304
Relies on Parker v. Flook · Van Products Co. v. General Welding & Fabricating Co. · Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. · Jet Spray Cooler, Inc. v. Crampton · Entrialgo v. Twin City Dodge, 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he `right [of an employee] to use [his] general knowledge, experience, memory and skill' ( J.T. Healy & Son v. James A. Murphy & Son, 357 Mass. 728, 740 [1970]), promotes the public interest in labor mobility and the employee's freedom to practice his profession and in mitigating monopoly. The law thus maximizes the benefit of the national store of skill and knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he loss to the individual and the economic loss to society are both greatest when a highly trained and specialized person is prevented from employing his special abilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“agreement which seeks to restrict the employee's right to use an alleged trade secret which is not such in fact or in law is unenforceable as against public policy”
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.