Greenbie v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Miller v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (1981), Hoehling v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (1980)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
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. § 116
Relies on United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States · Morton Salt Co. v. G. S. Suppiger Co. · United States v. Crescent Amusement Co. · Arnstein v. Porter
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that two works relate to the same subject matter or are similar to one another does not constitute an infringement if each is the fruit of the author’s independent intellectual effort. This is especially true when both works are derived from common sources and materials available to all so that the resemblances are either accidental or result from the nature of the subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the similarity between the two works arises because of the nature of the subject matter and the fact that both authors used materials available to all.”
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.