O'Rourke v. Central City Soap Co.’s Empirical Analysis
26 F. 576 · 1885
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1998
7 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Schulenberg v. Harriman · Burton v. Stratton · Wolfe v. Goulard · Davis v. Kendall · Congress and Empire Spring Co. v. High Rock Congress Spring 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We incline to the opinion that they are rather suggestive than descriptive, and that they may be properly claimed as a trade-mark.””
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.