McCord Co. v. Plotnick’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Saunders v. Superior Court (1994), Audio Fidelity, Inc. v. High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. (1960)
11 federal appellate · 16 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 International News Service v. Associated Press · Austin v. Hallmark Oil Co. · Wood v. Peffer
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Stripped of all disguises, the process amounts to an unauthorized interference with the normal operation of complainant’s legitimate business precisely at the point where the profit is to be reaped, in order to divert a material portion of the profit from those who have earned it to those who have not; with special advantage to defendant in the competition because of the fact that it is not burdened with any part of the expense of gathering the news. The transaction speaks for itself, and a court of equity ought not to hesitate long in characterizing it as unfair competition in business.” 248 U.S. at 240 , 39 S.Ct. at 72-3 , 63 L.Ed. at 221 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.