Dennison Mfg. Co. v. Thomas Mfg. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
94 F. 651 · 1899
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company v. Wolf Brothers & Company (1916), House of Westmore, Inc. v. Denney (1945)
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Menendez v. Holt · McLean v. Fleming · Singer Manuf'G Co v. June Manuf'G Co · Canal Company v. Clark · Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rival manufacturers may lawfully compete for the patronage of the public in the quality and price of their goods, in the beauty and tastefulness of their inclosing packages, in the extent of their advertising, and in the employment of agents; but they have no right, by imitative devices, to beguile the public into buying their wares under the impression they are buying those of their rivals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scriven v. North
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.