Tab Systems v. Pactel Teletrac’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 1372 · 1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Aktieselskabet Af 21. November 2001 v. Fame Jeans Inc. (2008), Allen Chance Tab Systems v. Pac-Tel Teletrac Inc (2001)
6 federal appellate · 3 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 National Cable Television Ass'n v. American Cinema Editors, Inc. · Jim Dandy Co. v. Martha White Foods, Inc. · Steer Inn Systems, Inc. v. Laughner's Drive-In, Inc. · Malcolm Nicol & Co. v. Witco Corp.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o goodwill is created when a mark is 'seen by the consuming public only in very limited quantity.' " (citing E. & J. Gallo Winery , 1989 WL 159628 , at ) ); Pactel Teletrac , 77 F.3d at 1376 ("Likewise with PacTel's slide show presentations to seven potential customers: we discern nothing in the record to indicate whether this group of customers constituted more than a negligible portion of the relevant market.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reached a substantial portion of the public that might be expected to purchase the [good or] service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“advertising brochures, catalogs, newspaper ads, and articles in newspapers and trade publications,”
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.