The American Rolex Watch Corporation and Montres Rolex, S.A. v. Ricoh Time Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 877 · 1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1992
6 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
Relies on Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Linear Design Labs, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is hardly likelihood of confusion or palming off when the name of the manufacturer is clearly displayed.”
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.