Edison v. Edison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The bill does not charge the defendant with menace, intimidation, or coercion of any kind toward customers oí the complainant, or with any direct attack upon his property or conduct of his business; nor does it allege that the acts complained of have created, or, if repeated, will create, any liability on the part of the complainant to third persons. Further, the case as presented is, indeed, one only of constructive, indirect, or implied libel or defamation by the defendant of the business reputation of the complainant and consequent diminution of his income. To hold that on- the facts admitted by the demurrer the complainant is entitled to the relief he prays would establish a dangerous precedent, calculated to produce confusion in the business world, open wide a door to fraud, and result in much greater evil to the public than that suffered by the victims of the defamation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vassar College v. Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.

2. ““A demurrer does not admit the truth of general allegations of fraud, but only the facts set forth as constituting the alleged fraud and all reasonable deductions-from them. And, where a bill-avers a legal inference which the facts stated therein do not justify, a demurrer, while confessing the facts, will not be considered as admitting the correctness of the inference.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vassar College v. Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.