Sutton Cosmetics (P. R.) Inc. v. Lander Co.’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 285 · 1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably Warner Bros Inc Ag Dc v. American Broadcasting Companies Inc J (1983), Thompson Medical Co. v. Pfizer Inc. (1985)
13 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · First National Bank v. Dickinson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A preliminary injunction under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act will issue only on a showing of a clear likelihood of success on the merits and irreparable injury, and [plaintiff] cannot be irreparably injured by [defendant’s] sales in markets in which [plaintiff] does not itself sell. Accordingly, we hold that the order must be modified to encompass only [those geographical] areas in which the district court finds that [plaintiff] was making sales at the time of the suit.”
1 later decision 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.