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← 42 CONNAPP 310 - Sharper Image Corp. v. Miller

Sharper Image Corp. v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
3
states following
December 1997
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Tallman v. Northwest Acute Care Corp. · Baker v. Minerex Erdoel, Inc. · International Business MacHines Corporation v. Brown · Morton Buildings, Inc. v. Bannon

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

  1. “The plaintiff's control was the direction; relinquishing the right to withdraw or redirect does not for purposes of `ownership' relinquish control.... By directing the shipping of the catalogs, Sharper Image retained ownership, even though it relinquished physical possession to the postal service.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 704 So. 2d 657 - SHARPER IMAGE v. Dept. of Rev.
  2. “Sharper Image also argues that this statutory definition of `use' cannot be judicially extended to include `distribution.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 704 So. 2d 657 - SHARPER IMAGE v. Dept. of Rev.

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.