Reed-Union Corporation v. Turtle Wax Inc’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 909 · 1996
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Checkpoint Systems, Inc. v. Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. (2001), Gaiman v. McFarlane (2004)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. · Holmes v. Hurst · Scandia Down Corporation v. Euroquilt Inc · Gammon v. GC Services Ltd. Partnership
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because confusion is a factual matter, the plaintiff must produce proof; a theory about how consumers might be confused will not do, unless evidence supports the theory.”
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.