Robi v. Five Platters, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 1439 · 1990
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Gallo Winery v. Gallo Cattle Company (1992), Robi v. Reed Jp (1999)
18 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1064 (§ 14 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1065 (§ 15 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson · Vermont v. Cox · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · Hanil Bank v. Michelman
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party may seek cancellation of a registered trademark on the basis of fraud ... by proving a false representation regarding a material fact, the registrant's knowledge or belief that the representation is false, the intent to induce reliance upon the misrepresentation and reasonable reliance thereon, and damages proximately resulting from the reliance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] district court judge may properly invoke Rule 60(a) to make a judgment reflect the actual intentions and necessary implications of the court's decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberately, vigorously, and successfully confused purchasers.”
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.