Schaake v. Eagle Automatic Can Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably 43 Cal. 4th 375 - City of Hope National Medical Center v. Genentech, Inc. (2008), 147 Cal. App. 2d 357 - Stevens v. Marco (1956)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Martin v. Zellerbach · Campbell v. Freeman · Kohl v. Lilienthal · Buckley v. Howe · San Francisco & North Pacific Railroad v. Bee
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These patents and improvements were assigned to the corporation by the plaintiff, but reserving an interest in certain profits which might be realized by the corporation. The relation thus created was fiduciary, and as to plaintiff's share or part of the profits realized the corporation was a trustee.”
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.