Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Rudner’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 826 · 1957
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2007
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Stork Restaurant, Inc. v. Sahati · 15 Cal. 2d 685 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences v. Benson · National Van Lines v. Dean · Sunbeam Furniture Corp. v. Sunbeam Corp. · Del Monte Special Food Co. v. California Packing Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence showed that, when the action was brought and at all times thereafter, there was a likelihood — a probability, if not a certainty — that, unless enjoined, appellee’s use of the trade name ‘Safeway’ would greatly and irreparably damage appellant. That showing was sufficient to entitle appellant to injunc-tive relief.” Safeway Stores, supra, 246 F.2d at 830 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“immaterial ... [that] appellant suffered no actual loss or damage as a result of the appelee's use of the trade-name . . . for this was not an action for damages”
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.