Witco Chemical Co. v. Whitfield Chemical Co.’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 1403 · 1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Specialty Brands, Inc. v. Coffee Bean Distributors, Inc. (1984), In re Shell Oil Co. (1993)
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
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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.
“It is, after all, a matter of judgment and appellant’s position is, fundamentally, that the board exercised a wrong judgment, not that it was in any way mistaken about the law or the important facts. We are not disposed to overturn the unanimous judgment of the board in a case such as this one where judgments may differ but in which it appears to have done a careful job and where there is substantial support in the record for what it has done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the particular facts of the present case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.