Door Systems Incorporated v. Pro-Line Door Systems Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 169 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Wallace II v. Smc Pneumatics Inc (1997), Nora Beverages Inc v. The Perrier Group of America Inc (2001)
27 federal appellate · 6 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 Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · Waldridge v. American Hoechst Corp. · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Ludwig · Ac Aukerman Company v. Rl Chaides Construction Co · Scandia Down Corporation v. Euroquilt Inc
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the evidence is so one-sided that there can be no doubt about how the question should be answered.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before [summary judgment] can properly be granted,...the court must have a very high degree of confidence that any disagreement over the facts is spurious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“plaintiff's evidence that two consumers (out of how many thousands?) may have been misled cannot by itself be thought to create a contestable issue of likelihood of confusion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.