Nos 96-56426 96-56433’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 213 F. Supp. 2d 1146 - Perfect 10, Inc. v. Cybernet Ventures, Inc. (2002), No. 98-17072 (2000)
10 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 Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. · Stewart v. Abend · Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp. · Litchfield v. Spielberg
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2) the work must substantially incorporate protected material from the preexisting work, and 3) the work must”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a work based upon one or more preexisting works such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-17072“A work will be considered a derivative work only if it would be considered an infringing work if the material which it has derived from a preexisting work has been taken without the consent of a copyright proprietor of such preexisting work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-17072
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.