Spa Esercizio v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp. (1999), Midwest Industries, Inc. v. Karavan Trailers, Inc. (1999)
11 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc. · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That is the article I want because I know its source,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n general terms, a product feature is functional if it is essential to the use or purpose of the article, or if it affects the cost or quality of the article.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Where the copying by one party of another's product is not done to deceive purchasers and thus derive a benefit from another's name and reputation, but rather to avail oneself of a design which is attractive and desirable, a case of unfair competition is not made out.'”
3 later decisions 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.