Rose v. Bourne, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Stone v. Williams (1992), Lottie Joplin Thomas Trust v. Crown Publishers, Inc. (1977)
8 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 116
Relies on Costello v. United States · Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons · Rossiter v. Vogel · Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee v. Charles K. Harris Music Publishing Co., Inc., Defendant-Appellee-Appellant · Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. Jerry Vogel Music 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Copyrights in their First Term on January 1, 1978 — (1)(A) any copyright, the first term of which is subsisting on January 1, 1978, shall endure for 28 years from the date it was originally secured. (1)(C) In the case of any other copyrighted work ...— (i) the author of such work, if the author is still living, (ii) the widow, widower, or children of the author, if the author is not living, shall be entitled to a renewal term and extension of the copyright in such work for a further term of 67 years. (2)(B) At the expiration of the original term of copyright in a work specified in paragraph (1)(C) of this subsection, the copyright shall endure for a renewed and extended further term of 67 years, which— (i) if an application to register a claim to such further term has been made to the Copyright Office within 1 year before the expiration of the original term of copyright, and the claim is registered, shall vest, upon the beginning of such further term, in any person who is entitled under paragraph (1)(C) to the renewal and extension of the copyright at the time the application is made; or (ii) if no such application is made or the claim pursuant to such application is not registered, shall vest, upon the beginning of such further term, in any person entitled under paragraph (1)(C), as of the last day of the original term of copyright, to the renewal and extension of the copyright. (3)(A) An application to register a claim to the renewed and extended term of copyright in a ”
2 later decisions 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.