Friedman v. Sealy, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.2d 255 · 1959
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Lundgren v. Freeman (1962), Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co. (1983)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Standard Oil Company, a Corporation and Sohio Petroleum Company, a Corporation v. Standard Oil Company, a Corporation · National Lead Co. v. Wolfe · B. F. Goodrich Co. v. Hockmeyer · Frank R. Jelleff, Inc. v. Braden · Blue Bell Co. v. Frontier Refining 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) When its use has been discontinued with intent not to resume. Intent not to resume may be inferred from circumstances. Nonuse for two consecutive years shall be prima facie abandonment. (b) When any course of conduct of the registrant, including acts of omission as well as commission, causes the mark to lose its significance as an indication of origin.””
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.