Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. (1988), Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc (1988)
55 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCoalition to Preserve the Integrity of American Trademarks v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1121 (§ 39 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1124 (§ 42 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 19 U.S.C. § 1202 · 19 U.S.C. § 1305 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1514 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1526 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 2092 · 21 U.S.C. § 381 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society · Vivitar Corporation v. The United States, and 47th Street Photo, Inc., Intervenor · Coalition to Preserve the Integrity of American Trademarks v. United States · Olympus Corp. v. United States
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlawful to import into the United States any merchandise of foreign manufacture”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“any civil action commenced against the United States, its agencies, or its officers, that arises out of any law of the United States providing for— (2) tariffs, duties, fees, or other taxes on the importation of merchandise for reasons other than the raising of revenue; (4) administration and enforcement with respect to the matters referred to in paragraphs (l)-(3) of this subsection and subsections (a)-(h) of this section.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[d]espite the fact that the Customs Courts Act of 1980 broadened the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of International Trade, it cannot exercise jurisdiction over actions not addressed by a specific jurisdictional grant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.