Spaulding v. Benenati’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1995), Dugan v. Dugan (1983)
16 federal appellate · 18 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.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every positive advantage... that has been acquired by a proprietor in carrying on [a] business, whether connected with the premises in which the business is conducted, or with the name under which it is managed, or with any other matter carrying with it the benefit of the business”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Congel v. Malfitano“will pay for any privilege that gives a reasonable expectancy of preference in the race of competition. Such expectancy may come from succession in place or name or otherwise to a business that has won the favor of its customers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Congel v. Malfitano
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.