Duane Jones Co. v. Burke

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a breach of fiduciary duty when defendant employees “determined upon a course of conduct which ... resulted in benefit to themselves through destruction of [the plaintiff corporation’s] business”
• finding former directors and officers violated fiduciary duty by engaging in conduct to acquire multiple accounts that “resulted in benefit to themselves through destruction of” the business they owed the fiduciary duties
• unfair competition where employees disloyally acted to aid rival newly created by former employee
• conspiracy to bring about mass resignation of employer’s key employees
• lost profits from diverted accounts recoverable by beneficiary
• applying faithless servant doctrine against corporate officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

177 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Guard-Life Corp. v. S. Parker Hardware Manufacturing Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-05-01· cited 445×
• Foley v. D'Agostino
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1964-03-17· cited 264×
• Gordon v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-06-01· cited 178×
• A. S. Rampell, Inc. v. Hyster Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1957-07-03· cited 166×
• Leo Silfen, Inc. v. Cream
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-01-12· cited 162×
• Contemporary Mission, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Famous Music Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1977-05-18· cited 147×
• Hadden v. Consolidated Edison Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1978-10-26· cited 134×
• Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. Glen
  California Supreme Court· 1966-03-17· cited 133×
• Ingle v. Glamore Motor Sales, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-02-21· cited 123×
• Maryland Metals, Inc. v. Metzner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-02-01· cited 122×
• Bulova Watch Co., Inc. v. K. Hattori & Co., Ltd.
  E.D. New York· 1981-02-12· cited 120×
• Graubard Mollen Dannett & Horowitz v. Moskovitz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1995-07-06· cited 110×
• S & K Sales Co. v. Nike, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1987-04-06· cited 105×
• Newburger, Loeb & Co. v. Gross
  Second Circuit· 1977-08-24· cited 103×
• George Lamborn, Henry Maringer, and Lamar Commodities, a Partnership v. Thomas H. Dittmer and Dittmer International, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1989-04-10· cited 101×
• Berley Industries, Inc. v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1978-11-30· cited 81×
• Maritime Fish Products, Inc. v. World-Wide Fish Products, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-03-15· cited 80×
• Science Accessories Corp. v. Summagraphics Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-11-21· cited 72×
• Community Counselling Service, Incorporated v. Robert Benedict Reilly
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-05-01· cited 70×
• ABC Trans National Transport, Inc. v. Aeronautics Forwarders, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-08-03· cited 66×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Duane Jones Co. v. Burke
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1953-05-09· cited 1×

Other cases named Duane Jones Co. v. Burke

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Duane Jones Co. v. Burke
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1952-09-30· cited 2×
• Duane Jones Co. v. Burke
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1953-05-09· cited 1×
• Duane Jones Co. v. Burke
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1952-04-22
• Duane Jones Co. v. Burke
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1952-05-27