Venetianaire Corp. of America v. A & P Import Co.’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 1079 · 1970
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Abercrombie & Fitch Co. v. Hunting World, Inc. (1976), McGregor-Doniger Inc. v. Drizzle Inc. (1979)
26 federal appellate · 9 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 Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Safeway Properties, Inc. · Q-Tipps, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson · Feathercombs, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Solo Products Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee. Solo Products Corporation v. Feathercombs, Inc. · Aluminum Fabricating Co. of Pittsburgh v. Season-All Window Corp.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a use, otherwise than as a trade or service mark ... and [is] used fairly and in good faith only to describe to users the goods or services of such party ____”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“protection afforded trademarks by both the Lanham Act and the common law focuses on the use of words, not on their nature or meaning in the abstract.”
2 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.