In re Pacer Technology’s Empirical Analysis
338 F.3d 1348 · 2003
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Coach Services, Inc. v. Triumph Learning LLC (2012), In re Oppedahl & Larson LLP (2004)
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1052 (§ 2 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1295
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Brothers, Inc. · Frederick H. Norton v. Lawrence E. Curtiss · On-Line Careline, Inc. v. America Online, 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Paris.” 2 . The phrase '‘primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive” is a statutory term of art in the trademark context; we neither take responsibility for nor endorse the split infinitives or absence of necessary commas its use in this opinion requires. 3 . Although Loew’s Theatres was decided before the Lanham Act was amended to incorporate relevant provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable predicate for its conclusion that the public would be likely to make the particular goods/place association on which it relies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind would accept as adequate”
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.