American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. v. National Gold Star Mothers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 488 · 1951
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2014
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · William Warner Co v. Eli Lilly & Co · American Steel Foundries v. Robertson · Waterman Company v. Modern Pen Company No 54 Modern Pen Company · Albert Dickinson Co. v. Mellos Peanut 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘The use by one organization of the name of another for the purpose of appropriating the standing and good will which the other has built up is a well recognized form of the wrong known to the law as unfair competition, against which courts of equity have not hesitated, in any jurisdiction, to use the full power of the injunctive process.’ Such simulation of names is restrained not because ‘there is property acquired by one party in the name, but to prevent fraud and deception in the dealing with the party charged with the simulation of a name used by another in a similar business or manufacture.’ * * *””
4 later decisions 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.