Spencer v. VDO Instruments, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1980
2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 1 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Saxlehner v. Eisner & Mendelson Co. · Prestonettes, Inc. v. Coty · A. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel · United States Ozone Co. v. United States Ozone Co. of America · Scandinavia Belting Co. v. Asbestos & Rubber Works of America, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so long as we are satisfied with your sales result.”
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.