E. Leitz, Inc. v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1986
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 1 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1060 (§ 10 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1126 (§ 44 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1127 (§ 45 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · A. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel · Kidd v. Johnson · Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Coca-Cola Co. · Scandinavia Belting Co. v. Asbestos & Rubber Works of America, 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify his goods and distinguish them from those sold by others”
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.