Gold Seal Co. v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 802 · 1954
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 7 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey (1956), Noble v. Colwell (1989)
79 federal appellate · 7 district · 15 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 1 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1071 (§ 21 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 35 U.S.C. § 145
Relies on Hurn v. Oursler · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · United States v. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. · Stone v. United States
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claim that facts exist which, under our legal system, are recognized as entitling the claimant to judicial action in vindication of a right or in remedying a wrong.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The fact that the motions judge, in the order sought to be reviewed, characterized the same as a final judgment upon a separate claim can not make the order such a judgment or the claim such a claim, if the claim fails to meet the standard of separateness or distinctness required by the law and the judgment fails to meet the standards of finality so required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a claim distinct from the other claim or claims”
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.