Wood v. Peffer’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably 20 Cal. 4th 163 - Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. (1999), 2 Cal. 4th 1254 - Bank of the West v. Superior Court (1992)
18 federal appellate · 32 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 McLean v. Fleming · Straus v. Notaseme Hosiery Co. · 15 Cal. 2d 685 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences v. Benson · Dodge Stationery Co. v. Dodge · J. C. Penney Co. v. H. D. Lee Mercantile Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What constitutes `unfair competition' or `unfair or fraudulent business practice' under any given set of circumstances is a question of fact [citation], the essential test being whether the public is likely to be deceived [citation].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An accounting will not be ordered where the infringing party acted innocently and in ignorance of the plaintiff's rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“equity constantly refuses, for want of fraudulent intent, the prayer for an accounting of profits”
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.