D C Comics, Inc. v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Reese Publishing Co. v. Hampton International Communications, Inc. (1980), 513 F. Supp. 1339 - Estate of Presley v. Russen (1981)
5 federal appellate · 7 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. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Manufacturing Co. v. S. S. Kresge Co. · Stoner v. California · Dawn Donut Co. v. Hart's Food Stores, Inc. · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Triebwasser & Katz, a Partnership Consisting of Jonah Triebwasser and William Katz v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he totality of evidence demonstrates that the Daily Planet has over the years become inextricably woven into the fabric of the Superman story.”
2 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.