Mosler Safe Co. v. Ely-Norris Safe Co.’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 132 · 1927
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably L'Aiglon Apparel, Inc. v. Lana Lobell, Inc. (1954), Johnson & Johnson v. Carter-Wallace, Inc. (1980)
34 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 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
reviewedEly-Norris Safe Co. v. Mosler Safe Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Di Santo v. Pennsylvania · American Washboard Co. v. Saginaw Mfg. Co. · Ely-Norris Safe Co. v. Mosler Safe Co. · Federal Trade Commission v. Pacific States Paper Trade Ass'n
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is consistent with every allegation in the bill and the defendant in argument asserted it to be a fact, that there are other safes with explosion chambers beside that for which the plaintiff has a patent. The defendant is charged only with representing that its safes had ‘an’ explosion chamber, which, so far as appears, it had a perfect right to do if the representation was true. If on the other hand the representation was false as it is alleged sometimes to have been, there is nothing to show that customers had they known the facts would have gone to the plaintiff rather than to other competitors in the market, or to lay a foundation for the claim for a loss of sales.””
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.