Popham v. . Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1941
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sign or symbol may be employed with equal truth in respect to any parts of the dead swine or Hie products of that animal put up for sale, and no one dealer has a greater right than any other to appropriate it to his own purposes. A serious question might lie made as to the right of the plaintiff to appropriate to his exclusive uso as a trade-mark the picture of the animal from which not only his lard but the lard of all other dealers and manufacturers of lard is derived, especially when the same emblem or symbol has been used by dealers in lard and other jiroducts of the slaughtered hog indiscriminately as they have had occasion. But, passing this question, there are other difficulties in the plaintiff's case which are insuperable.””
2 later decisions 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.