Collinsplatt v. Finlayson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Nor do these courts [i. e., federal] require specific proof of purchases by individuals actually deceived, when the labels themselves show an attempt at deception which appears to be well-calculated to deceive.” And again: “Inspection of the labels must carry conviction to any unbiased and intelligent mind that the later label was prepared by some one who had seen the earlier one, and that it was designed, not to differentiate the goods to which it was affixed, but to simulate a resemblance to complainant’s goods sufficiently strong to mislead the consumer, although containing variations sufficient to argue about, should the designer be brought into court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Devlin v. McLeod