In re Harris-Intertype Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 629 · 1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2009
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1052 (§ 2 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Automobile Club of Mich. v. Commissioner · Automobile Club of Michigan v. Commissioner · In re Kahan & Weisz Jewelry Mfg. Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the Rivera case, the applicant contended that “Rivera” was not primarily merely a surname, particularly since it is a Spanish word meaning a small stream or rivulet. The Assistant Commissioner simply stated: “[I]t is not believed that the average member of the purchasing public would, upon seeing “Rivera” used as a trademark on watches, be likely to think of its being a surname.””
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.