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Citation profile
29 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 213 F. Supp. 2d 1146 - Perfect 10, Inc. v. Cybernet Ventures, Inc. (2002), Department of Parks and Re-Creation for the State of California v. Bazaar Del Mundo Inc., a California Corporation (2006)
29 district · 5 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 Granny Goose Foods, Inc. v. Brotherhood of Teamsters & Auto Truck Drivers, Local No. 70 · Amf Incorporated v. Sleekcraft Boats E · Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp. · Gallo Winery v. Gallo Cattle Company · Ford Motor Co. v. Summit Motor Products, 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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he greater the similarity between the two marks at issue, the greater the likelihood of confusion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A mark's strength is 'evaluated in terms of its conceptual strength and commercial strength.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has always been considered a critical question in the likelihood-of-confusion analysis.”
3 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.