Cox v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably 65 Cal. 2d 349 - Wilke & Holzheiser, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (1966), State v. Opperman (1976)
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. · Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp. · Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. · Grayson-Robinson Stores Inc. v. Oneida Ltd. · Harris v. Duncan
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are also familiar with the modern trend to allow the government to encroach more and more upon the individual liberties and freedoms. So far as we are concerned we will not strike down the Constitution of our State for this purpose ; neither will we follow the crowd. The scheme described in the petition now under consideration permits a manufacturer, under the guise of protecting his property rights in a trade name and trade-mark, to control the price of his product down through the channels of trade into the hands of the ultimate consumer, and into the hands of persons with whom he has no contractual relation whatever. This statute clearly violates the provisions of the due-process clause of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.””
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.