Venn v. Goedert’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.2d 812 · 1963
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Litton Systems, Inc. v. Whirlpool Corp. (1984), Packman v. Chicago Tribune Co. (2001)
14 federal appellate · 6 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 National Bank of Eastern Arkansas v. General Mills, Inc. · J. C. Penney Co. v. H. D. Lee Mercantile Co. · Jennings v. McCall · Anthony v. Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. · Sandlin v. Johnson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he most common and effective means of apprising intending purchasers of the source of goods is a prominent disclosure on the container, package, wrapper, or label of the manufacturer's or trader's name * * * [and when that is done], there is no basis for a charge of unfair competition.'”
6 later decisions 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.