Collas v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Percoff v. Solomon (1953), Yost v. Patrick (1944)
28 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 Hilton v. Hilton · Ranft v. Reimers · Howard v. Taylor · Hall's Appeal · Jones v. Trawick's Adm'r
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Studying the question on principle as applied to a café business, it may be said the good will sold was the lure of the place for the public seeking that service. Entering into its making was the name, the location, the reputation as to quality, quantity, and prices of food, the service, including promptness, cleanliness, politeness, and furnishings, the general atmosphere, including the effect of the crowd of pleased customers, and the sheer habit of going to that place. It is unquestioned that good will may constitute a leading element of value in a going business. In creating such good will, the personal presence, reputation, management, and manner of the seller may have greatly contributed.”
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.