McFarland v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 912 · 1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Lighthouse Institute for Evangelism, Inc. v. City of Long Branch (2007), Landham v. Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. (2000)
6 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Van Dusen v. Barrack · Bates v. State Bar · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co. · Shaw v. Barr
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“New Jersey applies a governmental interest test to resolve choice of law issues. We have held the governmental interest test involves a two-part analysis. ‘The court determines first the governmental policies evidenced by the laws of the related jurisdiction and second the factual contact between the parties and each related jurisdiction.’ This approach is primarily concerned with the ‘qualitative nature of the contacts ...’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here an actor's screen persona becomes so associated with him that it becomes inseparable from the actor's own public image, the actor obtains an interest in the image”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.