Herbert v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
October 1960
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ramsay v. . Miller · White v. Osborn · Osborn v. . Schenck · De Witt v. . Elmira Nobles Manufacturing Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“If plaintiff's claim that the work must be treated as a whole be accepted, it is difficult to escape the application of the principle that plaintiff alone cannot restrain a production of the work by third parties, without proof that they have not been licensed by his co-owners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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