Chevron Chemical Company v. Voluntary Purchasing Groups Inc’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 695 · 1981
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. (1992), John Harland Company v. Clarke Checks Inc (1983)
78 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. · United States v. Loew's Inc. · Amstar Corporation v. Domino's Pizza Inc · Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. v. Diversified Packaging 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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently distinctive of itself to identify the producer.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[I]f the [challenged] mark was adopted with the intent of deriving benefit from the reputation of (the plaintiff,) that fact alone may be sufficient to justify the inference that there is confusing similarity.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] competitive business, once convicted of unfair competition in a given particular, should thereafter be required to keep a safe distance away from the margin line — even if that requirement involves a handicap as compared with those who have not disqualified themselves.”
6 later decisions 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.