Speed Products Co. v. Tinnerman Products, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 778 · 1949
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Saratoga Vichy Spring Co. v. Lehman (1980), Scott Paper Company v. Scott's Liquid Gold Inc (1978)
18 federal appellate · 5 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 Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Nu-Enamel Corp. · Johnson v. Stevenson · William Warner Co v. Eli Lilly & Co · Tynan v. United States · LaTouraine Coffee Co. v. Lorraine Coffee 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both are dominated by the word `SPEED' which describes one of the qualities of the clip and nuts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the good will... passed with the transfer of the business.”
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.