Locklin v. Day-Glo Color Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 873 · 1970
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Westport Taxi Service, Inc. v. Westport Transit District (1995)
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation · Rodriguez v. New York
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he “fact finder may act on probability and inference ... Even though we may not agree with each step in the [fact finder’s] reasoning process, we must affirm ... unless the findings are beyond the pale of sane judgment.” Trabert & Hoeffer, Inc. v. Piaget Watch Corp., 633 F.2d 477 , 484 (7th Cir.1980) quoting Locklin v. Day Glo Color Corp., 429 F.2d 873 , 880 (7th Cir.) cert. den., 400 U.S. 1020 , 91 S.Ct. 582 , 584, 27 L.Ed.2d 632 (1971).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interest is not enumerated as a recoverable item in the statute, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 15. Recovery of it is therefore precluded.”
2 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.