Boston Beer Company Limited Partnership v. Slesar Bros Brewing Company Inc’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 175 · 1993
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 58 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Iverson v. City of Boston (2006), CMM Cable Rep, Inc. v. Ocean Coast Properties, Inc. (1996)
39 federal appellate · 58 district · 4 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)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1127 (§ 45 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · Reiter v. Cooper · Liteky v. United States · Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. · McCoy v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Docket # 38, Ex. 1) 3 . A Court's inquiry into whether a term merits protection under the Lanham Act begins by deciding the extent of its”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law in this circuit is crystalline: a litigant's failure to explicitly raise an issue before the district court forecloses that party from raising the issue for the first time on appeal.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the length and manner of [a mark’s] use, (2) the nature and extent of advertising and promotion of the mark and (3) the efforts made in the direction of promoting a conscious connection, in the public’s mind, between the name or mark and a particular product or venture.”
5 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.