Al Williams Associates’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 942 · 1992
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Jefferson County · Howard Schultz & Associates of Southeast, Inc. v. Broniec · Tally-Ho, Inc. v. Coast Community College District · Durham v. Stand-By Labor of Georgia, Inc. · Ferrero v. Associated Materials 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.
“overly broad covenants may not be salvaged by excising—or ‘blue-pencil-mg’—their unenforceable provisions. If any part of a covenant is unenforceable, the entire covenant must fall.” . The Sheppard covenant did not use the language”
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.