Walter Baker & Co. v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
80 F. 889 · 1897
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1950 · most notably Howe Scale Company of 1886 v. Wyckoff Seamans Benedict (1905), Shaver v. Heller & Merz Co. (1901)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Pillsbury v. Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Co. · Meyer v. Dr. B. L. Bull Vegetable Medicine Co. · Walter Baker & Co. v. Baker · Duryea v. National Starch-Manuf'g Co. · Landreth v. Landreth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One entering into competition with another person of the same name, who has an old, established business, is bound to distinguish his goods from those of the latter so as to prevent confusion.” Also: “When, by long use, the words ‘Baker’s Chocolate’ had come to mean, in the minds of the public, complainant’s goods, held, that a subsequent maker of chocolate, with the same name, was not entitled to use that name, whether with his given name or its initials, in such manner as to announce that the goods he sells are ‘Baker’s Chocolate.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Von Faber v. Faber
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.