In re Dixie Restaurants, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 1405 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Xtreme Lashes, LLC v. Xtended Beauty, Inc. (2009), 985 F. Supp. 949 - Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Network Solutions, Inc. (1997)
18 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1052 (§ 2 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1057 (§ 7 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on In re E. I. DuPont DeNemours & Co. · Giant Food, Inc. v. Nation's Foodservice, Inc. · In re National Data Corp. · Opryland USA Inc. v. Great American Music Show, Inc. · Dan Robbins & Associates v. Questor Corp.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to be likely, when used on or in connection with the goods of the applicant, to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a likelihood of confusion exists is `a question of law based on underlying facts'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is no answer for the applicant to ask that the application be passed to publication to see whether the owner of the cited mark will oppose the registration”
1 later decision 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.