Star Financial Services, Inc. v. AASTAR Mortgage Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.3d 5 · 1996
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 56 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Winship Green Nursing Center (1996), Ip Lund Trading v. Kohler Co Ip
28 federal appellate · 56 district · 5 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 McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Liteky v. United States · Tennessee v. Middlebrooks · Grendel's Den, Inc. v. Larkin · Linthicum v. Archambault
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the similarity of the marks; (2) the similarity of the goods; (3) the relationship between the parties’ channels of trade; (4) the relationship between the parties’ advertising; (5) the classes of prospective purchasers; (6) evidence of actual confusion; (7) the defendant’s intent in adopting its mark; and (8) the strength of the plaintiffs mark.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e look to 'the length of time the mark has been used, its renown in the plaintiff's field of business, and the plaintiff's actions to promote the mark.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) that [it] uses, and thereby `owns' a mark; 2) that the defendant is using that same or a similar mark; 3) that the defendant's use is likely to confuse the public, thereby harming the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions 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.