General Baking Co. v. Gorman’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.2d 891 · 1925
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003
6 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 Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · United States v. Steffens · Manhattan Medicine Co. v. Wood · Clinton Worden Company v. California Fig Syrup Company
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.
““This contention, on analysis, falls little short of making federal registration of a trade-mark the equivalent of a patent or copyright — -a far-reaching proposition we cannot adopt. Nothing is better settled than that rights in trade-marks are of common-law origin, and are always ‘appurtenant to an established business or trade in connection with which’ they are employed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It should never be overlooked that trade-mark ... cases are affected with a public interest. A dealer's good will is protected, not merely for his profit, but in order that the purchasing public may not be enticed into buying A's product when it wants B's product.”
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.