174 Cal. App. 2d 744 - Smith v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 265 Cal. App. 2d 216 - Craemer v. Superior Court (1968), Edgar H. Wood Associates, Inc. v. Skene (1964)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Bobbs-Merrill Company v. Isidor Straus R H · White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company · American Tobacco Company v. Emil Werckmeister · Weitzenkorn v. Lesser · 35 Cal. 2d 653 - Stanley v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . , such a disclosure, communication, circulation, exhibition, or distribution of the subject of copyright, tendered or given to one or more members of the general public, as implies an abandonment of the right of copyright or its dedication to the public. . . . ” Werckmeister v. American Lithographic Co., 2 Cir., 134 F. 321, 326 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seay v. Vialpando“Here the architect limited the use of his plans both as to the persons allowed to use the work [Mrs. Krahmer and her agent the builder] and to the use which such persons might make of the work [the construction of one house].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The architect derives no profit from the deposit of his plans with the building department. He does not thereby sell his work and has no intention of dedicating it to the public.”
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.