Canal Company v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 311 · 1871
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 51 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 572 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc (1984), Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc. (1985)
179 federal appellate · 51 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Philip v. Nock
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 572 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Tho office of a trade-mark is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the article to which it is affixed; or, in other words, to give notice who was the producer. This may, in many cases, be done by a name, a mark, or a device well known, bur. not previously applied to the same article.””
45 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.