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274 F. Supp. 2d 163 - Scritchfield v. Paolo’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2022
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2022

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Basic Inc. v. Levinson · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Shields v. Citytrust Bancorp, Inc. · Carol Novak v. Sally Frame · Shaw v. Digital Equipment Corp.

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a company's statements that it is `premier,' `dominant,' or `leading' must not be assessed in a vacuum (i.e., by plucking the statements out of their context to determine whether the words, taken per se, are sufficiently `vague' so as to constitute puffery”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “are properly interpreted only by reference to the relevant circumstances that underlie their meaning.”
    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.