Zippo Manufacturing Company v. Rogers Imports, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that inquiry “requires a comparison of the probative value of the survey with the evidence, if any, which as a practical matter could be used if the survey were excluded”
• finding weight of case authority, consensus of legal writers, and reasoned policy considerations all indicate hearsay rule should not bar admission of properly conducted public surveys
• “[M]embers of the public who are asked questions about things in which they have no interest have ho reason to falsify their feelings.”
• “[The] danger [of insincerity] is minimized by the circumstances of [a] public opinion poll in which scientific sampling is employed, because members of the public who are asked questions about things in which they have no interest have no reason to falsify their feelings”
• survey data in trademark infringement case
• unfair competition; sample of consumers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).