Erickson v. Trinity Theatre, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 1061 · 1994
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Roth v. Lutheran General Hospital (1995), United States ex rel. Berge v. Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (1997)
50 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 302 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · Lampf, Pleva, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow v. Gilbertson · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · Wrenn v. McFadden
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] work is “fixed” in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment in a copy ... by or under the authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] work is joint if the authors collaborated with each other, or if each of the authors prepared his or her contribution with the knowledge and intention that it would be merged with the contributions of other authors as “inseparable or interdependent parts of a unitary whole.” The touchstone here is the intention at the time the writing is done that the parts be absorbed or combined into an integrated unit ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Normally, our review of the district court's determination is tailored to the various functions that the district court performs in evaluating whether to grant or deny a preliminary injunction.”
2 later decisions 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.