Foster v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1982
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Diamond Match Co. v. . Roeber · Clark Paper & Manufacturing Co. v. Stenacher · McCall Co. v. . Wright · Linn v. Sigsbee · Wirth & Hamid Fair Booking, Inc. v. Wirth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any unfair competition or practice may move equity to enforce a negative covenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Each case must depend upon its own facts and circumstances.”
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.