In re Data Packaging Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 1300 · 1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2010
1 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1071 (§ 21 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Ex parte Automatic Switch Co. · Leschen Sons Rope Company v. Broderick Bascom Rope Company · Samson Cordage Works v. Puritan Cordage Mills · Radio Corporation of America v. Decca Records · A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. v. American Steel & Wire Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persuaded that the applicant has made a prima facie showing that its contrasting color design does in fact identify the source of its goods to those in the trade.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] competing manufacturer [could] ascertain from reading the description of the mark ... exactly what design appellant regards as his trademark.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nor are we persuaded that our decision here is contrary to what was said in the Decca Records case.”
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.