Lepage Co. v. Russia Cement Co.’s Empirical Analysis
51 F. 941 · 1892
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1986 · most notably Howe Scale Company of 1886 v. Wyckoff Seamans Benedict (1905), Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company v. Hall's Safe Company C H O (1908)
12 federal appellate · 3 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 Menendez v. Holt · McLean v. Fleming · Brown Chemical Co. v. Meyer · Lawrence Manuf'G Co v. Tennessee Manuf'G Co · Kidd v. Johnson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is equitable that a manufacturer or dealer, who has given reputation to any article, should have the privilege of realizing the fruits of his labors by transmitting his business and establishment, with the reputation which has attached to them, on his decease to his legatees or executors, or during his lifetime to purchasers; and it is also in accordance with the principles of law, and with justice to the community, that any trade-mark, including a surname, may be sold with the business or the establishment to which it is incident, because, while it may be that individual efforts give them their value at the outset, yet afterwards this is ordinarily made permanent as a part of the entire organization, or as appurtenant to the locality in which the business is established, and thenceforward depends less on the individual efforts of the originator than on, the combined result of all which he created.””
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.