White v. Trowbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1982
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Chittenden v. Witbeck · Hall's Appeal
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In fact, the real difficulty in this case is that the plaintiffs have reason to-tear, not that the public will be deceived, but that if the fact becomes known. that the defendant Is engaged in the same business the public will purposely purchase the goods made by him for the reason that he was and is the originator” of the article.”
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.