Capital Films Corporation v. Charles Fries Productions, Inc. And American Broadcasting Company’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 387 · 1980
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Fernandez-Montes v. Allied Pilots Ass'n (1993), Pignons Mecanique Precision v. Polaroid Corporation (1981)
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · Jiro J. Enomoto, Etc. v. James C. Wright · Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. v. Diversified Packaging Corp. · Bon Air Hotel, Inc. v. Time, Inc. · Big O Tire Dealers, Inc., a Colorado Corporation v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he motion shall be served at least ten days before the time fixed for the hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a company with a well established trade name and with the economic power to advertise extensively [would be immunized from suit] for a product name taken from a competitor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“infringer's use of plaintiff's mark results in confusion as to origin of plaintiff's product”
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.