White Tower System, Inc. v. White Castle System of Eating Houses Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.2d 67 · 1937
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably Dawn Donut Co. v. Hart's Food Stores, Inc. (1959), Stork Restaurant, Inc. v. Sahati (1948)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · Canal Company v. Clark · Vogue Co. v. Thompson-Hudson Co. · Sweet Sixteen Co. v. Sweet "16" Shop, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deliberately imitated the peculiar characteristics of appellee's business, and adopted its system (in an effort) to exclude appellee from using its own style of building, name, and slogan in Detroit upon the ground that appellant first did business in that city”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the normal scope of expansion of appellee's business”
1 later decision 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.