477 U.S. 317 (1986) Cited 220,686 times 41 Legal Analyses
Holding that a movant's summary judgment motion should be granted "against a [nonmovant] who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial"
439 U.S. 322 (1979) Cited 4,294 times 8 Legal Analyses
Holding that district courts have discretion to refuse to apply offensive non-mutual collateral estoppel against a defendant if such an application of the doctrine would be unfair
Concluding that the same cause of action can exist in two cases only where the same set of transactional facts are involved in those cases and that, where the transactional facts differ, the doctrine of claim preclusion does not apply
In Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. v. Advantage Rent-A-Car, Inc., 330 F.3d 1333, 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2003), Enterprise challenged Advantage's use of the phrase "We'll Even Pick You Up" in television commercials broadcast in San Antonio, Texas between 1992 and 1995 as diluting its own phrases "Pick the Company that Picks You Up" and "Pick Enterprise, We'll Pick You Up," which Enterprise began using in 1994.