Pohl v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 1961 · most notably National Van Lines v. Dean (1956), Brooks Bros. v. Brooks Clothing of California, Ltd. (1945)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Canal Company v. Clark · American Waltham Watch Co. v. United States Watch Co. · American Automobile Ass'n v. American Automobile Owners Ass'n · Dunston v. Los Angeles Van & Storage Co. · 4 Cal. App. 537 - Hatton v. Gregg
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No inflexible rule can be laid down as to what conduct will constitute unfair competition. Each case is, in a measure, a law unto itself. Unfair competition is a question of fact. . . . The universal test qiiestion is whether the public is likely to be deceived.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Peffer
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.