Witkop v. Boyce’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Leo Silfen, Inc. v. Cream (1972), Town & Country House & Home Service, Inc. v. Newbery (1958)
2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Peabody v. Norfolk · Tode v. . Gross
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“availability as patrons cannot readily be ascertained but 'whose trade and patronage have been secured by years of business effort and advertising, and the expenditure of time and money, constituting a part of the good will of a business which enterprise and foresight have built up.'”
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.