192 F. Supp. 949 - Royer v. Stoody Company’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2010
4 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 White v. Nicholls · Black & Yates, Inc. v. Mahogany Ass'n · Doremus v. Hennessy · National Lead Co. v. Wolfe · Brooks Bros. v. Brooks Clothing of California, Ltd.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One without privilege so to do, has no right to issue and publish an untrue or deceptive statement of fact which has a disparaging effect upon the quality of another’s property, under circumstances which would lead a reasonable person to foresee that it will have such effect. The making of such a statement in such circumstances is tortious.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fraud, deceit, dishonesty, or reprehensible conduct in its business....”
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.