Resorts of Pinehurst Incorporated v. Pinehurst National Corporation US Resorts of Pinehurst Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 417 · 1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Harrods Limited v. Sixty Internet Domain Names (2002), Brown v. McLean (1998)
7 federal appellate · 11 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
Relies on Lone Star Steakhouse Saloon Incorporated v. Alpha of Virginia Incorporated · Pizzeria Uno Corp. v. Temple · Sara Lee Corporation v. Kayser-Roth Corporation · Sunamerica Corporation v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada · Boston Beer Company Limited Partnership v. Slesar Bros Brewing Company 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Secondary meaning has been established in a geographically descriptive mark where the mark no longer causes the public to associate the goods with a particular place, but to associate the goods with a particular source.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the likelihood of confusion is a factual issue dependent on the circumstances of each case..., summary judgment is appropriate when the material, undisputed facts disclose a likelihood of confusion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the undisputed evidence showed that PINEHURST had been used in connection with [plaintiff's] golf courses since the turn of the century”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.