Basicomputer Corp. v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
973 F.2d 507 · 1992
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Overstreet v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (2002), Certified Restoration Dry Cleaning Network, L.L.C. v. Tenke Corp. (2007)
32 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 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 Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · University of Texas v. Camenisch · Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc · Raimonde v. Van Vlerah
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether the covenant imposes temporal and spatial limitations, whether the employee had contact with customers, whether the employee possesses confidential information or trade secrets, whether the covenant' bars only unfair competition, whether the covenant stifles the employee’s inherent skill and experience, whether the benefit to the employer is disproportionate to the employee’s detriment, whether the, covenant destroys the employee’s sole means of support, whether the employee’s talent was developed during the employment, and whether the forbidden employment is merely incidental to the main employment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“damages flowing from such losses [of customer goodwill] are difficult to compute,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the nature of the plaintiff's loss would make the damages difficult to calculate.”
2 later decisions 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.