Sunrise Jewelry Mfg. Corp. v. Fred S.A.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.3d 1322 · 1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2015
3 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
Relies on Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc. · Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. · Knitwaves, Inc. v. Lollytogs Ltd. · Pebble Beach Company v. Tour I Limited Resorts of Pinehurst Incorporated
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By definition, something that is generic cannot serve as a trademark because it cannot function as an indication of source.”
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.