Ehret v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
10 F. 553 · 1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1932
2 federal appellate ·
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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An advertising card devised for ttie purpose of displaying paints of various colors, consisting of a sheet of paper having attached thereto square bits-of paper painted in various colors, each square having a different color, with some lithographic work surrounding the squares advertising the sale, of the-colors, is not the subject of a copyright””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. De Jonge v. Breuker
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.