Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences v. Creative House Promotions, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 1446 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Gallo Winery v. Gallo Cattle Company (1992), Deere & Company v. Mtd Products, Inc., Cross-Appellee (1994)
24 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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 Bullock v. United States · Kahn v. Grant · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Texas v. Certain Named & Unnamed Undocumented Alien Children · Stoner v. California
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action for unfair competition under Cal. Bus. & Prof.Code §§ 17200 et seq. is 'substantially congruent' to a trademark infringement claim under the Lanham Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual confusion is not necessary to a finding of likelihood of confusion under the Lanham Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“therefore serves a functional purpose only, and does not create a likelihood of confusion. B. 30 Nowell appeals the district court's denial of attorneys' fees. A prevailing party may recover attorneys' fees under 15 U.S.C. § 1117”
1 later decision 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.