American Greetings Corporation Cpg v. Dan-Dee Imports Inc Dan-Dee Imports Inc American Greetings Corporation Cpg’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 1136 · 1986
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 25 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. (1992), American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Winback & Conserve Program, Inc. (1994)
37 federal appellate · 25 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · Walker v. City of Birmingham
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the feature or overall combination of features imitated is non-functional, that it has acquired secondary meaning, and that members of the consuming public are likely to confuse the source of the product bearing the imitated feature or combination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of unfair competition in respect to trade dress requires that all of the features be considered together, not separately.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'trade dress' in its more modern sense [may] refer to the appearance of the [product] itself.”
2 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.