Skinner v. Oakes’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1979
10 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 McLean v. Fleming · Meneely v. . Meneely · Glen & Hall Manufacturing Co. v. Hall · Gilman v. Hunnewell · Peltz v. Eichele
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Should he, Probasco, sell out his said business of candy making and selling within said two years, or at any other time, then said Oakes shall be relieved from all obligations under this agreement, and the right and privilege of making and selling ‘ Oakes’ Candies ’ and of using said name shall revert to said Oakes. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oakes v. Tonsmterre
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.