Eastern Construction Co. v. Eastern Engineering Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably Lawyers Title Ins. v. Lawyers Title Ins. (1939), American Safety Table Co. v. Schreiber (1959)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 American Steel Foundries v. Robertson · Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company v. Hall's Safe Company C H O · Chas. S. Higgins Co. v. Higgins Soap Co. · Ball v. . Broadway Bazaar · Corning Glass Works v. Corning Cut Glass Co.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature of the business in which the defendant competes with the plaintiff reduces almost to the vanishing point the possibility of deception and damage ... The defendant does not seek the patronage of the wayfarer whose purchases are often dictated by hasty impression rather than inspection and consideration. The defendant competes with the plaintiff in bidding for public work. [ 246 N.Y. at 464 , 159 N.E. at 399 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Justification, if any, for the injunction, must rest upon a finding that the corporate name which the defendant has adopted, with the sanction of the state, is so similar to the name under which the plaintiff conducts its business that the public may be confused, and that some persons may do business with the defendant in the belief that they are dealing with the plaintiff. * * *”
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.