Baltimore Bedding Corp. v. Moses’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 53 Md. App. 379 - Cavalier Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Liberty Homes, Inc. (1983), Edmondson Village Theatre, Inc. v. Einbinder (1955)
2 federal appellate · 37 district · 13 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 Singer Manuf'G Co v. June Manuf'G Co · Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn · Howe Scale Company of 1886 v. Wyckoff Seamans Benedict · Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company v. Hall's Safe Company C H O · G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What constitutes unfair competition in a given case is governed by its own particular facts and circumstances. Each case is a law unto itself, subject, only, to the general principle that all dealings must be done on the basis of common honesty and fairness, without taint of fraud or deception.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Secondary meaning] contemplates that a word or phrase originally, and in that sense primarily, incapable of exclusive appropriation with reference to an article on the market, because geographically or otherwise descriptive, might nevertheless have been used so long and so exclusively by one producer with reference to his article that, in that trade and to that branch of the purchasing public, the word or phrase had come to mean that the article was his product; in other words, had come to be, to them, his trade-mark.”
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.