Freeman v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 285 · 1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 135 Cal. App. 4th 663 - Colgan v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. (2006), Williams v. Gerber Products Co. (2008)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · 2 Cal. 4th 1254 - Bank of the West v. Superior Court · 35 Cal. 3d 197 - Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp. · 15 Cal. 3d 866 - Chern v. Bank of America · 7 Cal. 4th 1057 - Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show that members of the public are likely to be deceived.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny ambiguity that [reasonable consumers] would read into any particular statement is dispelled by the promotion as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“statements, in context, are not misleading,”
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.