Shredded Wheat Co. v. Humphrey Cornell Co.’s Empirical Analysis
250 F. 960 · 1918
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2002 · most notably Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. (1938), Triangle Publications, Inc. v. Rohrlich (1948)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Singer Manuf'G Co v. June Manuf'G Co · G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield · Crescent Tool Co. v. Kilborn & Bishop Co. · Flagg Manufacturing Co. v. Holway · Coca Cola Co. v. Gay-Ola 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff has at least shown that the public has become accustomed to regard its familiar wheat biscuit as emanating, if not from it by name, at least from a single, though anonymous, maker, and the second is as good for these purposes as the first.”
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.