Selchow v. . Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 1968 · most notably Stix Products, Inc. v. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc. (1968), Blisscraft of Hollywood v. United Plastics Co. (1961)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 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 McHenry v. . Jewett · Fetridge v. Wells · Wolfe v. Goulard · Davis v. Kendall · Williams v. Johnson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Oar conclusion is that where a manufacturer has invented a new name, consisting either of a new word or a word or words in common use, which he has applied for tito first time to his own manufacture, or to an article manuiactuml by him, to distinguish it from those manufactured and sold by others, and the name Urns adopted is not generic or descriptive of the article, its qualities, ingredients, or characteristics, but is arbitrary or fanciful, and is not used merely to denote grade or quality, lie is entitled to be protected in the use of that name, notwithstanding that it lias become so generally known that it has been adopted by the public as the ordinary appellation of the article.””
3 later decisions 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.