Switzerland Cheese Association Inc v. E Horne's Market Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
507 federal appellate · 19 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 869 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Carson v. American Brands, Inc. (1981), Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp. (1988)
507 federal appellate · 19 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSwitzerland Cheese Ass'n v. E. Horne's Market, Inc. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 1 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger · Chappell & Co. v. Frankel · Peter Pan Fabrics, Inc. v. Dixon Textile Corp. · Federal Glass Co. v. Loshin
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 869 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not settle or even tentatively decide anything about the merits of the claim.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“approach this statute somewhat gingerly lest a floodgate be opened that brings into the exception many pretrial orders.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“granting, continuing, modifying, refusing, or dissolving, injunctions.”
14 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.