Shoney's, Inc. v. Schoenbaum’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 92 · 1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2013
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1115 (§ 33 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Mushroom Makers, Inc. v. R. G. Barry Corp. · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Tomlin · 31 Tenn. App. 314 - Commerce Street Co. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Ward v. Berry & Associates, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental rule that the parties are assumed to have intended that the language employed in an integrated contract should have its plain, commonly-understood meaning in expressing their agreement.”
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.