285 F. Supp. 2d 613 - Schmidheiny v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1129
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Big Apple BMW, Inc. v. BMW of North America, Inc. · Armbruster v. Unisys Corp.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who registers a domain name that consists of the name of another living person, or a name substantially and confusingly similar thereto, without that person’s consent, with the specific intent to profit from such name by selling the domain name for financial gain to that person or any third party, shall be liable in a civil action by such person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zinner v. Olenych“In any civil action brought under paragraph (1), a court may award injunctive relief, including the forfeiture or cancellation of the domain name or the transfer of the domain name to the plaintiff. The court may also, in its discretion, award costs and attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zinner v. Olenych
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.