Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 359 · 1927
Citation profile
855 federal appellate · 273 district · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,167 later decisions (73 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1962), Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1969)
855 federal appellate · 273 district · 168 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Colgate & Co. · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering · Keogh v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Cited together with Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · United States v. Scophony Corp. of America · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · United States v. Griffith
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 2,167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant whose wrongful conduct has rendered difficult ascertainment of the precise damages suffered by the plaintiff, is not entitled to complain that they cannot be measured with the same exactness and precision as would otherwise be possible,”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““§ 22. District in which to sue corporation “Any suit, action, or proceeding under the antitrust laws against a corporation may be brought not only in the judicial district whereof it is an inhabitant, but also in any district wherein it may be found or transacts business; and all process in such cases may be served in the district of which it is an inhabitant, or wherever it may be found.””
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in fact, in the ordinary and usual sense, it 'transacts business' therein of any substantial character.”
19 later decisions 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.