Thaddeus Davids Company v. Cortlandt I Davids I’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Stix Products, Inc. v. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc. (1968), Brooks Bros. v. Brooks Clothing of California, Ltd. (1945)
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Singer Manuf'G Co v. June Manuf'G Co · Elgin National Watch Company v. Illinois Watch Case Company W · Howe Scale Company of 1886 v. Wyckoff Seamans Benedict · Brown Chemical Co. v. Meyer · Lawrence Manuf'G Co v. Tennessee Manuf'G 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Their exclusive use as trade-marks for the stated period was deemed in the judgment of Congress a sufficient assurance that they had acquired a secondary meaning as the designation of the origin or ownership of the merchandise to which they were affixed. And it was manifestly in this limited character only that they received statutory recognition, and, on registration, became entitled to protection under the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It follows that, where the mark consists of a surname, a person having the same name and using it in his own business, although dealing in similar goods, would not be an infringer, provided that the name was not used in a manner tending to mislead, and it was clearly made to appear that the goods were his own and not those of the registrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not to be supposed that Congress intended to prevent one from using his own name in trade or from making appropriate reference to the town or city in which his place of business is located.””
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.