Hook v. Hook & Ackerman, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.2d 180 · 1956
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Rains v. Cascade Industries, Inc. (1968), Wrist-Rocket Manufacturing Co. v. Saunders Archery Co. (1975)
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Hurn v. Oursler · Messenger v. Anderson · Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. · Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · General Electric Co. v. Marvel Rare Metals 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The source of the stated unfair competition was completely separable from the patent case and no so-called ‘logical relationship’ as the appellant now seems to rely on in its reply brief can be forced on them simply because the one boiler appears in both. The complaint sought decision of a single right, that is whether appellees’ boiler infringed appellant’s patent. The unfair competition claim rests not on that but on two elements which were not even present in the main litigation, namely, confusion of outward appearance and of name. The district court was justified in refusing to pass upon the merits of the counterclaim and in dismissing it for lack of jurisdiction.””
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.