Schreyer v. Casco Products Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.2d 921 · 1951
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Maternally Yours, Inc. v. Your Maternity Shop, Inc. (1956), Hyde Corporation v. Huffines (1958)
57 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Hoeltke v. C. M. Kemp Mfg. Co. · Conmar Products Corp. v. Universal Slide Fastener Co.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the court found no express agreement to hold the information in confidence and not to use it if the negotiations for a license were not successful, there was a confidential relationship created between the parties by the disclosures which restricted the right of Casco to use them to the purposes for which the disclosures were made.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unlike the situation in Kleinman v. Betty Dain Creations, Inc., 2 Cir., 189 F.2d 546 , 548, this dependent cause of action does not `sound primarily in contract.'”
1 later decision 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.