Robinson Electronic Supervisory Co. v. Johnson

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• affording trade secret protection to customer lists prepared by the defendant on grounds that the defendant was specifically hired to prepare such lists
• “[Customer lists and customer information ... [are] highly confidential and constitute[ ] a valuable asset. Such data has been held to be property in the nature of a ‘trade secret’ for which an employer is entitled to protection, independent of a non-disclosure contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2001-06-04· cited 338×
• Van Products Co. v. General Welding & Fabricating Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-10-13· cited 135×
• Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-19· cited 70×
• Carl A. Colteryahn Dairy, Inc. v. Dairy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-09-29· cited 57×
• Insulation Corp. of America v. Brobston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-03· cited 56×
• Dozor Agency v. Rosenberg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-04-17· cited 40×
• BIEC International, Inc. v. Global Steel Services, Ltd.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1992-05-05· cited 33×
• Slott v. Plastic Fabricators, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-01-16· cited 29×
• Hagy v. Premier Manufacturing Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-06-26· cited 28×
• A.M. Skier Agency, Inc. v. Gold
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-28· cited 27×
• Trilog Associates, Inc. v. FAMULARO
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 20×
• United Insurance Company of America v. Dienno
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1965-12-15· cited 19×
• American Family Mutual Insurance Company v. Bonnie L. Roth
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-05-07· cited 11×
• Burroughs Corporation v. Cimakasky
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1972-05-23· cited 7×
• Wiggins v. Physiologic Assessment Services, LLC
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-06-03· cited 3×
• National Starch & Chemical Corp. v. Snyder
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1964-06-26· cited 3×
• American Family Mutu v. Roth, Bonnie L.
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-05-07
• Robert Half of PA Inc. v. Feight
  Alleghany County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-06-29
• Somat Corp. v. Combs
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1966-05-25
• Mader Group, Inc. v. Gekoski
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1981-09-24

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morgan's Home Equipment Corp. v. Martucci
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-11-22· cited 267×
• Lindenfelser v. Lindenfelser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-06-25· cited 83×
• Macbeth-Evans Glass Co. v. Schnelbach
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1913-01-06· cited 76×
• Chas. H. Elliott Co. v. Skillkrafters, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1921-07-01· cited 15×
• Northampton Area Joint School Authority v. Building & Construction Trades Council of Allentown, Bethlehem & Easton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-06-30· cited 14×