Corbin v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 308 · 1890
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1977 · most notably Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn (1893), Lawrence Manuf'G Co v. Tennessee Manuf'G Co (1891)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Menendez v. Holt · McLean v. Fleming · Canal Company v. Clark · Manufacturing Co. v. Trainer · Goodyear's Rubber Manuf'G Co v. Goodyear Rubber 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The owner of an original trade-mark has an undoubted right to be protected in the exclusive use of all the marks, forms, or symbols that were appropriated as designating the true origin or ownership of the article or fabric to which they are affixed; but he has no right to the exclusive use of any words, letters, figures, or symbols which have no relation to the origin or ownership of the goods, hut are only meant to indicate their names or quality. He has no right to appropriate a sign or a symbol which, from the nature of the fact it is used to signify, others may employ with equal truth, and therefore have an equal right to employ for the same purpose.””
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.