A. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 689 · 1923
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 41 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 349 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc (1988), Champion Spark Plug Co. v. Sanders (1947)
134 federal appellate · 41 district · 8 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
reviewedA. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Menendez v. Holt · Boesch v. Graff · A. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel · Eiseman v. Schiffer
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 349 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indicates in law, and, it is found, by public understanding, that the goods come from the plaintiff.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“monopoly of a trade-mark ... deals with a delicate matter that may be of great value but that easily is destroyed, and therefore should be protected with corresponding care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the genuine product of the French concern.”
3 later decisions 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.