Bell v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2023
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · Educational Development Corp. v. Economy Co. · Indian Territory Oil & Gas Co. v. Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co. · Jewel Companies, Inc. v. Westhall Co. · Coalgate Abstract Co. v. Coal County Abstract Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a deceptive trade practice to misappropriate the trade name of another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f ordinary words are used to palm off goods of one manufacturer, dealer or vendor as those of another and to carry on unfair competition, their use may be enjoined by a court of equity to the same extent as a fully protected distinctive term or symbol.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Haynes“as to the source, sponsorship, or approval of their goods in violation of the Oklahoma Deceptive Trade Practices Act, 78 O.S. Supp. 2004 § 53(A)(2),(3), and (5). [11]”
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.