Adams v. Heisel’s Empirical Analysis
31 F. 279 · 1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1930
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The complainants could not obtain a trade-mark for the form of the sticks of chewing gum they might manufacture, nor by the use oí'a peculiar form and decoration of the boxes they may use to hold the sticks of gum, nor in the manner in which the gum might be placed in the boxes. These qualities and forms are common to the manufacture, and may be made similar without injury to others who may use the same forms. ⅜ % * The complainants cannot now so broaden and enlarge their trade-mark as to cover the whole1 box, with all its ornaments and forms of putting up the gum, and the colors used in such decorations, and thereby prevent others from using these forms of putting up gums for sale.””
1 later decision 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.