Ellis v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Weber v. Tillman (1996), Hotel Riviera, Inc. v. Torres (1981)
30 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 Purchasing Associates, Inc. v. Weitz · Karpinski v. Ingrasci · Granger v. Craven · Pfister v. Shelton · Hansen v. Edwards
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] restraint of trade is unreasonable, in the absence of statutory authorization or dominant social or economic justification, if it is greater than is required for the protection of the person for whose benefit the restraint is imposed or imposes undue hardship upon the person restricted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no inflexible formula for deciding the ubiquitous question of reasonableness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“purport[ed] to prohibit [appellant] from practicing orthopedic surgery,”
2 later decisions 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.