Sentco, Inc. v. McCulloh’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1985
6 federal appellate · 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 Crescent Tool Co. v. Kilborn & Bishop Co. · The Children's Bootery v. Sutker · 67 So. 2d 215 - Florida Ventilated Awning Co. v. Dickson · Wesson v. Galef · El Modello Cigar Manufacturing Co. v. Gato
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There appears to me not the slightest question that all the infringing revolvers were deliberately made for the purpose of imitating a model of the plaintiff”. In the case of Galef and Newmark, they correspond in dimension even by gauge, a coincidence wholly impossible in the absence of conscious imitation. In the case of Gluck, the visual similarity is as complete. Such things do not happen because manufacturers are merely following old patents. Little identical features in the two lay the matter beyond doubt, if doubt could remain, (emphasis added) 68 So. at 580.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant . . . may copy the plaintiff’s goods slavishly down to the minutest detail; but he may not represent himself as the plaintiff in their sale.”
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.