U.S. Structures, Inc. v. J.P. Structures, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Alexander v. CareSource (2009), Godfredson v. Hess & Clark, Inc. (1999)
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Street v. Jc Bradford & Company · United States v. Apfelbaum
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which— (A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person, or (B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person’s goods, services, or commercial activities, shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under 15 U.S.C.S 1117(a), attorneys'f ees are recoverable only for work performed in connection with claims filed under the Lanham Act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court in exceptional cases may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party,”
3 later decisions 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.