Original Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Co. v. River Valley Cookies, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 273 · 1992
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Broussard, McDonald's Corporation v. Robertson (1998)
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Schmidt v. Lessard · Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System v. MCorp Financial, Inc. · Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc · Marble Company v. Ripley · 125 Ill. App. 3d 972 - Dayan v. McDonald's Corp.
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“parties to a contract are not each other's fiduciaries--even if the contract is a franchise”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The acid test of whether a purported injunction is appealable is whether it is in sufficient though not exact compliance with Rule 65(d) that a violation could be punished by contempt or some other sanction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The idea that favoring one side or the other in a class of contract disputes can redistribute wealth is one of the most persistent illusions of judicial power. It comes from failing to consider the full consequences of legal decisions. Courts deciding contract cases cannot durably shift the balance of advantages to the weaker side of the market. They can only make contracts more costly to that side in the future, because [the other side] will demand compensation for bearing onerous terms.”
2 later decisions 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.