Baker v. Simmons Co.’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.2d 458 · 1962
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Ac Aukerman Company v. Rl Chaides Construction Co (1992), Grotrian, Helfferich, Schulz, Th. Steinweg Nachf. v. Steinway & Sons (1975)
38 federal appellate · 17 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 Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States · International Salt Co. v. United States · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Manufacturing Co. v. S. S. Kresge 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an action for infringement of a protected trademark or name the test is that of confusing similarity. Thus under the Lanham Act it is incumbent upon a court to determine whether a defendant’s use of the contested mark is ‘likely to cause confusion or mistake or to deceive purchasers as to the source of origin of * * * such goods or services.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exculpated from the reach of the anti-trust laws if the arrangement was actuated by or could be explained on the basis of a legitimate business justification as opposed to an improper motive”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“position of the defendant and substituted the less demanding test of a”
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.