Schumacher v. Wogram’s Empirical Analysis

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The facts show an attempted evasion by the plaintiffs of the provisions of section 3 of the act of Congress of June 18, 1874, ‘to amend the law relating to patents, trade-marks, and copyrights.’ That section declares in substance that no prints or labels designed to he used for any article of manufacture can be copyrighted, but authorizes them to be registered and protected as trade-marks in proper cases. If the experiment of the plaintiffs can succeed, this statute is inoperative whenever the prints or labels contain a pictorial illustration; and it could be wholly nullified by the device of printing pictures on the labels. The case of Schumacher v. Schwencke [O. C.] 20 Fed. 466 , is distinguishable from the present, because in that case the court found that the picture copyrighted was not made to be used for labels.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. De Jonge v. Breuker