Michael Davis v. Electronic Arts Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• exercising the Court’s discretion to determine whether plaintiffs’ state law claims are barred by the incidental use defense not asserted in the district court
• “Although 10 California courts have not yet held that the incidental use defense applies to right-of- 11 publicity claims, the defense is widely recognized.”
• “Although 28 California courts have not yet held that the incidental use defense applies to right-of- 1 publicity claims, the defense is widely recognized.”
• analyzing “incidental use” under the 2 First Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Ninth Circuit· 2016-02-17· cited 45×
• United States v. Jorge Alberto Navarro
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-09-04· cited 43×
• C.W. Ex Rel. K.S. v. Capistrano Unified School District
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-03-02· cited 38×
• De Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-03-26· cited 29×
• Comcast of Sacramento I, LLC v. Sacramento Metropolitan Cable
  Ninth Circuit· 2019-05-08· cited 15×
• Daniels v. Fanduel, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-03-07· cited 10×
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Center for Medical Progress
  N.D. California· 2016-09-30· cited 9×
• C. W. v. Capistrano Usd
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-04-09
• Akeem Daniels v. Fanduel, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-03-07
• De Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC
  California Court of Appeal· 2018-03-26
• Richard Dent v. Nfl
  Ninth Circuit· 2020-08-07
• Banks v. Hoffman
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2023-09-07

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miller v. Gammie
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-07-09· cited 1,582×
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-27· cited 599×
• Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn.
  California Supreme Court· 1994-01-28· cited 539×
• Joseph R. Bolker v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-05-17· cited 408×
• Wilson v. Parker, Covert & Chidester
  California Supreme Court· 2002-08-01· cited 405×
• Linder v. Thrifty Oil Co.
  California Supreme Court· 2000-08-09· cited 361×
• Archdiocese of Milwaukee Supporting Fund, Inc. v. Mercury Interactive Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-08-18· cited 341×
• Ginger Rogers v. Alberto Grimaldi, Mgm/ua Entertainment Co., and Pea Produzioni Europee Associate, S.R.L.
  Second Circuit· 1989-05-05· cited 311×
• Peregrine Funding, Inc. v. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-10-19· cited 232×
• Hilton v. Hallmark Cards
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-03-23· cited 143×
• Bosley Medical Institute, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, and Bosley Medical Group, S.C., an Illinois Corporation v. Michael Steven Kremer
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-04-04· cited 134×
• Comedy III Productions, Inc. v. Gary Saderup, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 2001-04-30· cited 113×
• Mindys Cosmetics, Inc. v. Dakar
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-07-06· cited 102×
• Montana v. San Jose Mercury News, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1995-05-03· cited 54×
• Premier Medical Management Systems, Inc. v. California Insurance Guarantee Ass'n
  California Court of Appeal· 2006-02-06· cited 54×
• Hart v. Electronic Arts, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2013-05-21· cited 49×
• Gionfriddo v. Major League Baseball
  California Court of Appeal· 2001-12-10· cited 48×
• Dora v. Frontline Video, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1993-04-30· cited 44×
• Samuel Keller v. Electronic Arts Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-07-31· cited 38×
• Doubt v. Activision Publishing, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-02-15· cited 37×