James v. Screen Gems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 813 - Lugosi v. Universal Pictures (1979), 187 Cal. App. 3d 1463 - Miller v. National Broadcasting Co. (1986)
16 federal appellate · 15 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
Relies on Coverstone v. Davies · 160 Cal. App. 2d 718 - Kelly v. Johnson Publishing 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exploitation of plaintiff's deceased husband's personality and name for commercial purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.