Postum Cereal Co. v. California Fig Nut Co.’s Empirical Analysis
272 U.S. 693 · 1927
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 15 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1985 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962)
55 federal appellate · 15 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · David Muskrat v. · Shaffer v. Carter · Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Co. · Wetmore v. Rymer
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision of the Court of Appeals under § -9 of the act of 1905 2 is not a judicial judgment. It is a mere administrative decision. It is merely an instruction to the Commissioner of Patents by a court which is made part of the machinery of the Patent Office for administrative purposes.”
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.