Levi Strauss & Co. v. Shilon’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 1309 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Thomas Cline (2000), Sugar Busters LLC v. Brennan (1999)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1114 (§ 32 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1116 (§ 34 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1117 (§ 35 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Warren III v. City of Carlsbad · Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union · William Warner Co v. Eli Lilly & Co · Bagdadi v. Nazar · Fuddruckers Inc v. Doc's Br Others Inc
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to the principles of equity and upon such terms as the court may deem reasonable, to prevent the violation of any right of the registrant of a mark registered in the Patent and Trademark Office or to prevent a violation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fails to apply the correct law or ... rests its decision on a clearly erroneous finding of material fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be resolved in [the plaintiff's] favor as the innocent producer and against the [defendant]”
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.