Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. v. Leisure Time Productions, B.V.’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 38 · 1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Conopco, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Co. (1996), Emi Catalogue Partnership Emi Robbins Catalog Inc v. Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos Inc Spalding Sports Worldwide (2000)
6 federal appellate · 7 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. § 2201
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of whether laches bars a plaintiff from equitable relief is entirely within the discretion of the trial court,”
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.