Johnson & Johnson v. Bauer & Black’s Empirical Analysis
82 F. 662 · 1897
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1945
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 N. K. Fairbank Co. v. R. W. Bell Manuf'g Co. · Pillsbury v. Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Co. · Badger v. Ranlett · Burbank v. Bigelow · Johnson v. Bauer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be true (bal those engaged in the trade and acquainted with the manufacture of both parlies could not be deceived; but ns the goods of the appellant have come to be town as ‘lied Gross Plasters,’ and notwithstanding a discriminating examination would deiect the distinction in the trade-mark, the casual observer might easily be mistaken, and imposition would be easy. The red cross speaks to the eye, and the article, being known by that designation, speaks also to the ear by that name.””
1 later decision 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.