Avnet v. Texas Centennial Central Exposition’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2002
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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Texas, unfair competition has been defined as "consisting of] the simulation by one person, for the purpose of deceiving the public, of the names, symbols, labels or devices employed by a business rival in order to induce [the] purchasing public to buy his products in the belief that they are those of his rival.””
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.