Bull S.A. v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 678 · 1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2014
4 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 1 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1058 (§ 8 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1059 (§ 9 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown · Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond · Mondy v. Secretary of the Army
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a claimant has received inadequate notice, ... where a motion for appointment of counsel is pending and equity would justify tolling the statutory period until the motion is acted upon, ... where the court has led the plaintiff to believe that she had done everything required of her, ... [or] where affirmative misconduct on the part of a defendant lulled the plaintiff into inaction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“despite the doctrine's flexibility in disputes between private parties, its application to the government must be rigid and sparing.”
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.