King v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 370 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably The Procter & Gamble Company v. Amway Corporation (2001), Bridgmon Icus v. Array Systems Corporation a Icus (2003)
11 federal appellate · 1 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. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Topalian v. Ehrman · Amstar Corporation v. Domino's Pizza Inc · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. DeLanney
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant made a false statement of fact about its product in a commercial advertisement; (2) the statement actually deceived or had a tendency to deceive a substantial segment of its audience; (3) the deception was material, in that it is likely to influence the purchasing decision; (4) the defendant caused the false statement to enter interstate commerce; and (5) the plaintiff has been or is likely to be injured as a result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o determine whether an instance of copying is legally actionable , a side-by-side comparison must be made between the original and the copy to determine whether a layman would view the two works as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even though we construe the facts in the light most favorable to [the non-movant], we are not required to create evidence where none exists.”
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.