White v. Leanore Frocks, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.2d 113 · 1941
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc. (1951), Bose Corp. v. Linear Design Labs, Inc. (1972)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · In re Pennsylvania Co. · New York Belting & Packing Co. v. New Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co. · Nat Lewis Purses, Inc. v. Carole Bags, Inc. · Neufeld-Furst & Co. v. Jay-Day Frocks 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The validity of a design patent depends upon the same factors as that of a mechanical patent: the condition of the art when the design was made; how long the need had existed; how nearly the art had approached the new design and when; how far the design met with popular approval and displaced other designs when it appeared.””
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.