National Cable Television Ass'n v. American Cinema Editors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
937 F.2d 1572 · 1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Aktieselskabet Af 21. November 2001 v. Fame Jeans Inc. (2008), Daddy's Junky Music Stores, Inc. v. Big Daddy's Family Music Center (1997)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 1052 (§ 2 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1065 (§ 15 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1069 (§ 19 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1127 (§ 45 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Cruz v. Hauck · Parham v. Cortese · Webster v. Fall · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an issue is not argued or is ignored in a decision, such decision is not precedent to be followed in a subsequent case in which the issue arises.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the pleadings [and] depositions, ... together with the affidavits ... show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“ACE for canned, large peas could not escape likelihood of confusion with a prior use of ACE for canned, small peas because ACE is concurrently used by unrelated third parties on aircraft, clothing, computer services, hardware or even bread, bananas, milk and canned carrots. Properly defined, the relevant public in the example need be defined no broader than purchasers of canned peas, and the third party ACE marks outside the segment become essentially irrelevant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.