Avis Rent Car System Inc v. Hertz Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 381 · 1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Abbott Laboratories v. Mead Johnson & Co. (1992), PPX Enterprises, Inc. v. Audiofidelity Enterprises, Inc. (1987)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Markham v. Cabell · Gemsco, Inc. v. Walling · Cabell v. Markham
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fundamental to any task of interpretation is the principle that text must yield to context.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[f]indings of fact, whether based on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.