Becker v. Loew's, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.2d 889 · 1943
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably 35 Cal. 2d 653 - Stanley v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1950), Locklin v. Day-Glo Color Corporation (1970)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. · Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp. · Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. · Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. · Dam v. Kirk La Shelle 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the thing said to be passed off must resemble the thing for which it is passed off. A frying pan cannot be passed off as a kettle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Fasken
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.