Gorham v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2000
1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Smith v. Sperling · Mullen v. Torrance · Wells v. Universal Pictures Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the suit is one brought to enforce a right based upon a contract which relates to a copyrighted production, the suit is one which arises out of the contract, and is not one arising under the copyright statute. . . . `The fact that a . . . copyright is incidentally involved'”
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.