Amstar Corporation v. Domino's Pizza Inc’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 252 · 1980
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 26 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 403 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Ramdass v. Angelone Director Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), John Harland Company v. Clarke Checks Inc (1983)
128 federal appellate · 26 district · 6 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Rodriguez v. New York · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Stoner v. California
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 403 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]issimilarities between the retail outlets for and the predominant consumers of plaintiff's and [defendant's] goods lessen the possibility of confusion, mistake, or deception”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although evidence of actual confusion is not necessary to a finding of likelihood of confusion, it is nevertheless the best evidence of likelihood of confusion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[I]f the [challenged] mark was adopted with the intent of deriving benefit from the reputation of (the plaintiff,) that fact alone may be sufficient to justify the inference that there is confusing similarity.'”
8 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.