Resource Developers, Inc. v. Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 134 · 1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Lipton v. Nature Co. (1995), George Basch Co. v. Blue Coral, Inc. (1992)
37 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 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))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Johnson v. Righetti · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Civil action. (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, ... uses in commerce any ... false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading misrepresentation of fact, which— (B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person’s goods, services, or commercial activities, shall be hable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he summary judgment rule would be rendered sterile ... if the mere incantation of intent or state of mind would operate as a talisman to defeat an otherwise valid motion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that consumers are, in fact, being deceived.”
3 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.