Zyla v. Wadsworth a Division of Thomson Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.3d 243 · 2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Beacon Mutual Insurance Company v. Onebeacon Insurance Group (2004), Schlotzsky's, Ltd. v. Sterling Purchasing & National Distribution Co. (2008)
4 federal appellate · 16 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
Relies on Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. · Maria Feliciano De La Cruz Erasmo Jimenez and Their Conjugal Partnership El Conquistador Resort and Country Club and Hugh Andrews · Gilliam v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · Cleary v. News Corp. · Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who ... in connection with any goods or services ... uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which ... is likely to cause confusion ... as to the origin ... of [its] goods [or] services ..., or in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics [or] qualities ... [of] another person’s goods [or] services.”
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.