Skol Co. v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 200 · 1945
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably Celanese Corp. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. (1946), Celanese Corp. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. (1946)
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 American Steel Foundries v. Robertson · Waterman Company v. Modern Pen Company No 54 Modern Pen Company · Cluett, Peabody & Co. v. Wright · Skelly Oil Co. v. Powerine Co. · In re Laskin Bros.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not serve to identify any corporation in particular. 25 It is true that, at the date of application for registration, the 1939 contract by which the New York company agreed to handle only the export company's merchandise had not been canceled, but, as a matter of fact, the New York company, between 1940 and 1946, had been handling other merchandise, with full knowledge of the French company, and its right to do so, and to apply to such merchandise the words”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“No. 290,681, dated January 12, 1932. 4 For the reason that appellee is the prior user of its trade-mark and the goods of the parties possess the same descriptive properties, the only question to be determined here is whether or not the involved marks possess such similarity as to be considered confusingly similar within the meaning of the act. 5 The Examiner of Interferences held that the mark sought to be registered bears such a near resemblance to the notation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.