Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. v. Lockhart

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding scope of activity covered by noncompetition clause unreasonable because it extended to “any business ... similar to ... any portion” of a multi-industry corporation as compared to the single industry division for which employee worked
• “A claim of trade secret misappropriation should not act as an ex post facto covenant not to compete.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Whyte v. Schlage Lock Company
  California Court of Appeal· 2002-09-12· cited 146×
• Burk v. Heritage Food Service Equipment, Inc.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-10-24· cited 48×
• Loparex, LLC v. MPI Release Technologies, LLC
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-03-21· cited 35×
• Del Monte Fresh Produce Co. v. Dole Food Co., Inc.
  S.D. Florida· 2001-05-24· cited 28×
• Interbake Foods, L.L.C. v. Tomasiello
  N.D. Iowa· 2006-11-13· cited 24×
• Standard Register Co. v. Cleaver
  N.D. Indiana· 1998-10-14· cited 15×
• Product Action International, Inc. v. Mero
  S.D. Indiana· 2003-08-05· cited 13×
• Butts v. Oce-USA, Inc.
  S.D. Indiana· 1998-06-05· cited 8×
• Maxxim Medical, Inc. v. Michelson
  S.D. Texas· 1999-03-25· cited 6×
• Bodemer v. Swanel Beverage, Inc.
  N.D. Indiana· 2012-07-31· cited 6×
• Harlan Laboratories, Inc. v. Campbell
  D. Massachusetts· 2012-10-25· cited 4×
• Kentner v. Timothy R. Downey Ins., Inc.
  S.D. Indiana· 2006-03-29· cited 1×
• International Action Center v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2009-11-17

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dague v. Piper Aircraft Corp.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-03-26· cited 233×
• Pepsico, Inc., a Corporation v. William E. Redmond, Jr., and the Quaker Oats Company, a Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-05-11· cited 171×
• Bright v. McCullough
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1866-11-15· cited 99×
• Donahue v. Permacel Tape Corp.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1955-06-20· cited 95×
• Amoco Production Co. v. Laird
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-10-21· cited 91×
• Dortch v. Lugar
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1971-01-26· cited 85×
• Licocci v. Cardinal Associates, Inc.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 73×
• Seach v. Richards, Dieterle & Co.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1982-08-31· cited 68×
• AMP Inc. v. Fleischhacker
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-07-16· cited 60×
• Harvest Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Inter-Ocean Insurance Co.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-05-15· cited 56×
• Ackerman v. Kimball International, Inc.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-07-12· cited 44×
• Orbison v. WELSH, GOVERNOR
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1962-01-22· cited 40×
• Slisz v. Munzenreider Corp.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-10-29· cited 37×
• Jak Productions, Incorporated, an Indiana Corporation v. Edward J. Wiza, III
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-02-16· cited 36×
• Furno v. Citizens Insurance Co. of America
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-05-06· cited 33×
• Hahn v. Drees, Perugini & Co.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-11-21· cited 31×
• Smart Corp. v. Grider
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-05-19· cited 26×
• Kozuch v. CRA-MAR Video Center, Inc.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-05-22· cited 26×
• Ackerman v. Kimball International, Inc.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-05-23· cited 23×
• Kroger Food Stores, Inc. v. Clark
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-09-09· cited 20×