Walthal v. Rusk’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.3d 481 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2019
9 federal appellate ·
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. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 203 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 204 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 302 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. American Train Dispatchers Association Csx Transportation Inc · Farmers & Merchants Bank of Monroe v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond · Rano v. Sipa Press, Inc. · I.A.E., Inc. v. Shaver
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]icensing agreements...are terminable at the will of the author only during a five[-]year period beginning at the end of thirty-five years from the date of execution of the license unless they explicitly specify an earlier termination date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“authors against unremunerative transfers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing contained in this section or elsewhere in this legislation is intended to extend the duration of any license, transfer or assignment made for a period of less than thirty-five years. If, for example, an agreement provides an earlier termination date or lesser duration, or if it allows the author the right of cancelling or terminating the agreement under certain circumstances, the duration is governed by the agreement.”
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.