United States v. Backer’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.2d 533 · 1943
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Heim v. Universal Pictures Co. (1946), Vacheron & Constantin-Le Coultre Watches, Inc. v. Benrus Watch Co. (1958)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Caha v. United States · Washingtonian Publishing Co. v. Pearson · 20 F. Supp. 802 - Freedman v. Milnag Leasing Corporation · Singleton v. United States · Joe Mittenthal, Inc. v. Irving Berlin, 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that publication with notice is sufficient to copyright whatever may be copyrighted at all. The need for a valid registration of a claim to copyright arises only because under § 12 of the 1909 Act there can be no maintenance of an action or proceeding for infringement until the provisions of the Act ‘with respect to the deposit of copies and registration of such work shall have been complied with.’ (emphasis added).”
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.