Centaur Co. v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every one has the undoubted right to sell his own goods or goods of his own manufacture, as such, however much such sales may damage or injure the business of his competitors. * ⅜ * Every purchaser is charged with knowledge of the fact that any 'one may make and sell ‘Castoria,’ and, if he seeks that made by one manufacturer rather than that prepared by another, it is his duty to examine the wrapper with such a degree of care as would ordinarily ascertain who the manufacturer of the article which he purchases is. 'The law imposes no duty upon the appellees to see to it that the careless and indifferent know that the Castoria which they buy is made by the appellant if they so dress their product that one who seeks to ascertain whose manufacture it is can readily learn by a reasonable examination of their wrappers, whether it is made by the appellant or by themselves.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walter Baker & Co. v. Gray