Repp v. Webber’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 882 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc. (1998), Hamil America, Inc. v. GFI (1999)
21 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Dister v. Continental Group, Inc.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either by direct evidence of copying or by indirect evidence, including access to the copyrighted work, similarities that are probative of copying between the works, and expert testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Copyright infringement is established when the owner of a valid copyright demonstrates unauthorized copying.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a case alleging music plagiarism, the claimant is constrained to prove that defendant took from plaintiffs works so much of what is pleasing to the ears of lay listeners, who comprise the audience for whom such music is composed, that defendant wrongfully appropriated something which belongs to the plaintiff.”
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.