Bristol Co. v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
199 F. 412 · 1912
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1949
5 federal appellate ·
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 · Elgin National Watch Company v. Illinois Watch Case Company W · Canal Company v. Clark · Standard Paint Company v. Trinidad Asphalt Manufacturing Company · Trinidad Asphalt Mfg. Co. v. Standard Paint 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term has been in use from a very early date, and, generally speaking, means a distinctive mark of authenticity, through which the products of particular manufacturers or the vendible commodities of particular merchants may be distinguished from those of others. It may consist in any symbol or in any form of words, but as its office is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the articles to which it is affixed, it follows that no sign or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trade-mark which,■ from the nature of the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth and with equal right for the same purpose.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has no right to appropriate a sign or a symbol, which, from the nature of the fact that it is used to signify, others may employ with equal truth, and therefore have an equal right to employ for the same purpose.”
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.