Coffman v. Castner’s Empirical Analysis
87 F. 457 · 1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1948
3 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Steffens · Canal Company v. Clark · Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn · Brown Chemical Co. v. Meyer · Holmes v. Jennison
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A geographical name cannot be appropriated to the exclusive use of any person or company as a trade-mark.””
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.