IVS Hydro, Inc. v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2025
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Thompson v. Potomac Electric Power Co. · People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney · Learning Curve Toys Incorporated v. Playwood Toys Incorporated · Harvey Barnett, Inc. v. Shidler
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent to which the information is known outside of the [plaintiff's] business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in the [plaintiff's] business; (3) the extent of the measures taken by the [plaintiff] to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the information to the [plaintiff] and competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money expended by the [plaintiff] in developing the information; and (6) the ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others.”
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.