Dior v. Milton’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Societe Comptoir de L'industrie Cotonniere Etablissements Boussac v. Alexander's Department Stores, Inc. (1962), Flexitized, Inc., and Flexitized Sales Corporation v. National Flexitized Corporation and Dubin-Haskell Lining Corp. (1964)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Relies on Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · International News Service v. Associated Press · Associated Press v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With the passage of those simple and halcyon days, when the chief business malpractice was ‘palming off’, and with the development of more complex business relationships and, unfortunately, malpractices, many courts, including the courts of this State, extended the doctrine of unfair competition beyond the cases of ‘palming off’. The extension resulted in the granting of relief in cases where there was no fraud on the public, but only a misappropriation for the commercial advantage of one person of a benefit or ‘property right’ belonging to another.” Id. p. 452.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no complete list of the activities which constitute unfair competition. The general principle, however, evolved from all of the cases is that commercial unfairness will be restrained when it appears that there has been a misappropriation, for the commercial advantage of one person, of a benefit or property right belonging to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.