Spayd v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 132 Ohio App. 3d 657 - McConnell v. Hunt Sports Enterprises (1999), 113 Ohio App. 3d 75 - Dorsey v. Contemporary Obstetrics & Gynecology, Inc. (1996)
5 federal appellate · 23 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 Menendez v. Holt · Metropolitan Nat Bank of New York v. St Louis Dispatch Co · Stern v. Stern · Dugan v. Dugan · 103 Wash. 2d 236 - In Re the Marriage of Hall
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The comprehensive definition of ‘goodwill’ is ‘the advantage or benefit, which is acquired by an establishment, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement, which it receives from constant or habitual customers, on account of its local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances or necessities, or even from ancient partialities or prejudices.’ Story, Commentaries on the Law of Partnership (6 Ed. 1868) 170, Section 99. See, also, Metro. Natl. Bank v. St. Louis Dispatch Co. (1893), 149 U.S. 436 ; 38 American Jurisprudence 2d (1968) 912, Good Will, Section 1. A much narrower definition has been stated as the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place. Mattis v. Lally (1951), 138 Conn. 51, 54 , 82 A. 2d 155, 156 .” Id. at 59-60 , 19 OBR at 58, 482 N.E. 2d at 1236 .”
3 later decisions 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.