Zidell v. Dexter’s Empirical Analysis
262 F. 145 · 1920
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2008
9 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
Relies on Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co. · Ashley v. Weeks-Numan Co. · Ashley v. Samuel C. Tatum Co. · R. E. Dietz Co. v. Burr & Starkweather Co. · Zidell v. Dexter
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the differences in designs, which under the patent law will avoid infringement, are differences which will attract the attention of the ordinary observer, giving such attention as the purchaser usually gives in buying articles of the kind in question and for the purposes for which they are intended.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The patent was obtained without specifications or description, other than drawings of the design, and it gives to the public no notice that any particular element or group of elements of the design is predominant. On the face of the design the more prominent distinguishing features would appear to be: (1) A square Dutch collar; (2) the ornamentation of collar, wrist bands, and knee bands; (3) a belt with large buttons; and (4) the flaring or peg shape of the trousers.””
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.