Life Savers Corp. v. Curtiss Candy Co.’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 4 · 1950
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1995 · most notably Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. (1995), Scandia Down Corporation v. Euroquilt Inc (1985)
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
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 Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. · Estate of Beckwith v. Commissioner of Patents · Campbell Soup Co. v. Armour & Co. · Cooper v. O'Connor
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A new competitor is not held to the obligations of an insurer against all possible confusion. He is not obligated to protect the negligent and inattentive purchaser from confusion resulting from indifference. -x- * * instead they are required only to mark or designate them in such manner that purchasers exercising ordinary care to discover whose products they are buying will know the truth and not become confused or mistaken.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The dominant feature of plaintiff’s trademark is the words, ‘Life Savers’, appearing three times in bold white letters extending practically the length of its label. It would indeed seem unlikely for any purchaser buying a package of ‘Life Savers’ to avoid knowledge of the origin of the package of Life Savers. The same is likewise true as to any of defendant’s packages of hard candy.” 182 F.2d, at pp. 7-8.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“What the plaintiffs are really asking for, then, is a right to the exclusive use of labels which are half red and half white for food products. If they may thus monopolize red in all of its shades the next manufacturer may monopolize orange in all its shades and the next yellow in the same way. Obviously, the list of colors will soon run out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.