73 Cal. App. 412 - Tomsky v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1979
17 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 McLean v. Fleming · Howe Scale Company of 1886 v. Wyckoff Seamans Benedict · Fisher v. . Star Co. · Meneely v. . Meneely · Dodge Stationery Co. v. Dodge
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to do business under one’s own name is one of the sacred rights known to the law; and a family name is incapable of exclusive appropriation, and cannot be thus monopolized. Nims on Unfair Competition and Trade Marks (2d Ed.) § 67.””
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.