Cellular Sales, Inc. v. Mackay’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 483 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Duluth News-Tribune Division of Northwest Publications Inc v. Mesabi Publishing Company (1996), Stuart Hall Co. v. Ampad Corp. (1995)
10 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc. · Lewis v. United States · Vision Center v. Opticks, 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the public domain and available for all to use,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The standard of proof that must be met by the plaintiff in seeking injunctive relief varies depending upon the type of mark at issue. If the mark is the strongest possible mark — an arbitrary or fanciful mark — it is “entitled to maximum legal protection and do[es] not require proof of secondary meaning.” If the mark is the weakest protectable mark — a descriptive trademark or trade name — the plaintiff must prove that the mark has an accepted “secondary meaning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. The likelihood that the movant will succeed on the merits; 2. The threat of irreparable harm to the movant; 3. The balance between the harm to the movant if injunctive relief is denied and the injury that will result if the injunction is granted; and 4. The public interest.”
1 later decision 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.