National Van Lines, Inc. v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.2d 5 · 1961
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2013
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Estate of Beckwith v. Commissioner of Patents · Independent Nail & Packing Co. v. Stronghold Screw Products, Inc. · Northam Warren Corp. v. Universal Cosmetic Co. · Life Savers Corp. v. Curtiss Candy Co. · Albert Dickinson Co. v. Mellos Peanut 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ultimate standard in determining whether there is an infringement of a trade-mark ‘does not depend upon the use of identical words or design,’ but rather ‘it is sufficient if one adopts a trade name or a trade-mark so like another in form, spelling, or sound that one, with a not very definite or clear recollection as to the real trade-mark, is likely to become confused or misled.’ Keller Products v. Rubber Linings Corp., 7 Cir., 1954, 213 F.2d 382, 387 , 47 A.L.R.2d 1108 ; Independent Nail & Packing Co. v. Stronghold Screw Products, 7 Cir., 1953, 205 F.2d 921, 924 ; Northam Warren Corporation v. Universal Cosmetic Co., 7 Cir., 1927, 18 F.2d 774, 775 .” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions 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.