Chester H. Roth, Inc. v. Esquire, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
186 F.2d 11 · 1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1980
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Johnson · Kidd v. Johnson · S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Johnson · Triangle Publications, Inc. v. Rohrlich · Moers v. . Moers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such agreements have a legitimate business purpose and are not contrary to public policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.