Dreamwerks Production Group, Inc. v. SKG Studio’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 1127 · 1998
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp. (1999), Gotocom Inc v. The Walt Disney Company Disney Enterprises Inc Infoseek Corporation Montrose Corporation
33 federal appellate · 13 district ·
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 Amf Incorporated v. Sleekcraft Boats E · 11 Cal. 4th 376 - Della Penna v. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. · Gallo Winery v. Gallo Cattle Company · Russell v. Rolfs · Levi Strauss & Co. v. Blue Bell, 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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) strength of the mark; (2) proximity or relatedness of the goods; (3) similarity of sight, sound, and meaning; (4) evidence of actual confusion; (5) marketing channels; (6) type of goods and purchaser care; (7) intent; and (8) likelihood of expansion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he test for likelihood of confusion is whether a `reasonably prudent consumer' in the marketplace is likely to be confused as to the origin of the good or service bearing one of the marks.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ultimate question in a reverse confusion case is whether consumers doing business with the senior user might mistakenly believe that they are dealing with the junior user.”
5 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.