Computing Scale Co. v. Standard Computing Scale Co.’s Empirical Analysis
118 F. 965 · 1902
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1956 · most notably Standard Paint Company v. Trinidad Asphalt Manufacturing Company (1911), Barton v. Rex-Oil Co. (1924)
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Singer Manuf'G Co v. June Manuf'G Co · Elgin National Watch Company v. Illinois Watch Case Company W · Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn · Brown Chemical Co. v. Meyer · Lawrence Manuf'G Co v. Tennessee Manuf'G Co
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But when the word is incapable of becoming a valid trade-mark, because descriptive or geographical, yet has by long use come to stand for a particular maker or vendor, its use by another in this secondary sense will be restrained as unfair and fraudulent competition, and its use in its primary or common sense confined in such a way as will prevent a probable deceit by enabling one maker or vendor to sell his árticle as the product of another.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In short, the name stands for a machine, and not for a maker.”
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.