Polymer Technology Corp. v. Mimran’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 58 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Town of Hyde Park (1995), Blum v. Schlegel (1994)
16 federal appellate · 2 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 Carnegie v. United States · Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc. · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp. · Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. · Jacoway v. Anderson
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, trademark law does not reach the sale of genuine goods bearing a true mark even though the sale is not authorized by the mark owner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny person ... without the consent of the registrant ... use[s] in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or advertising of any goods ... [and] such use is likely to cause confusion....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'an error of law, an error of fact, or an error in the substance or form of the trial court's order.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blum v. Schlegel · Rosen v. Siegel
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.