Buzby v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
150 F. 275 · 1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1936
6 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 McLean v. Fleming · Elgin National Watch Company v. Illinois Watch Case Company W · Saxlehner v. Eisner & Mendelson Co. · Canal Company v. Clark · Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The manufacturer of particular goods is entitled to the reputation they have acquired, and the public is entitled to the means of distinguishing between those and other goods; and protection is accorded against unfair dealing, whether there be a technical trade-mark or not. The essence of the wrong consists in the sale of the goods of one manufacturer or vendor for those of another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The arbitrary symbol of the keystone of an arch is not a geographical term. It is the proper subject of exclusive appropriation as a trade-mark, and it was so under the. common law before the state of Pennsylvania came into existence.””
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.