90 N.C. App. 458 - Beasley v. Banks’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
16 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 Jewel Box Stores Corporation v. Morrow · Welcome Wagon International, Inc. v. Pender · Maola Ice Cream Co. v. Maola Milk & Ice Cream Co. · 69 N.C. App. 240 - Blackwell v. Massey · 82 N.C. App. 45 - Masterclean of North Carolina, Inc. v. Guy
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the territory is too broad, `the entire covenant fails since equity will neither enforce nor reform an overreaching and unreasonable covenant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) in writing; (2) reasonable as to time and territory; (3) made a part of the employment contract; (4) based on valuable consideration; and (5) designed to protect a legitimate business interest of the employer (citations omitted).”
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.