Paint Brush Corp. v. Neu

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that breach of duty of loyalty claim based on evidence that defendant was taking steps to compete with employer while still employed was not preempted
• “A statement is actionable if it implies a false assertion of objective fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Neumann v. Liles
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2016-03-03· cited 64×
• In Re Providian Credit Card Cases
  California Court of Appeal· 2002-02-20· cited 57×
• Bertelsen v. Allstate Insurance Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2011-04-06· cited 56×
• Setliff v. Akins
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-09-06· cited 46×
• Manuel v. Wilka
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-05-10· cited 27×
• Weins v. Sporleder
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-03-06· cited 24×
• Long v. Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-01-04· cited 22×
• Saathoff v. Kuhlman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2009-03-18· cited 18×
• Cotton v. Manning
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-09-29· cited 16×
• Aqreva, LLC v. Eide Bailly, LLP
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2020-10-28· cited 12×
• Arnoldy v. Mahoney & Finneman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2010-12-01· cited 11×
• Jutting v. Hendrix
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-02-16· cited 6×
• John Morrell & Co. v. Halbur
  N.D. Iowa· 2007-03-05· cited 5×
• In Re the Alcohol Beverage License Suspension of Cork 'N Bottle, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-11-20· cited 4×
• Drew v. Stanton
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-12-08· cited 3×
• Weins v. Sporleder
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-01-26· cited 3×
• Miller v. Huron Regional Medical Center, Inc.
  D. South Dakota· 2015-11-05· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-01-04
• Harvey v. Regional Health Network
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2018-01-03
• Jed Spectrum, Inc. v. Stoakes
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2025-07-02

Cites

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

• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• St. Amant v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 2,076×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Abrams v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1919-11-10· cited 602×
• Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 469×
• Luther Haynes and Dorothy Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, and Nicholas Lemann
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 235×
• Unelko Corp., an Illinois Corporation Howard G. Ohlhausen v. Andy Rooney, an Individual Cbs, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-08-24· cited 140×
• Levinsky's, Inc. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1997-09-29· cited 139×
• Moss v. Guttormson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-06-26· cited 133×
• William Janklow v. Newsweek, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-04-10· cited 121×
• Tibke v. McDougall
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-01-08· cited 108×
• Partington v. Bugliosi
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-06-07· cited 93×
• Dahl v. Sittner
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1991-08-28· cited 90×
• Taggart v. Ford Motor Credit Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1990-10-31· cited 81×
• Breen v. Dakota Gear & Joint Co., Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1988-12-07· cited 76×
• Beverly Hills Foodland, Inc., a Missouri Corporation v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 655
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-10-27· cited 75×
• Hayes v. Northern Hills General Hospital
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-03-10· cited 54×
• Laber v. Koch
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-03-12· cited 51×
• Uken v. Sloat
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-09-17· cited 48×
• Ault v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-20· cited 48×