Hunt v. Pasternack’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 683 · 1999
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2017
1 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. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Eales v. Environmental Lifestyles, Inc. · 107 F.3d -148 - Magana v. Northern Mariana Islands · PCCE, Inc. v. United States
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.
“for which no copyright application had been submitted. From the record as a whole, however, it is clear that the claimed infringement was of the design of the architectural work, not of a separate copyright in the plans or drawings themselves. See Magana v. Commonwealth of the N. Mariana Islands, 107 F.3d 1436 , 1447 (9th Cir. 1997) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any architectural work that, on the date of the enactment of this Act [December 1, 1990], is unconstructed and embodied in unpublished plans or drawings . . . shall terminate on December 31, 2002, unless the work is constructed by that date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so that a work of architecture may be embodied in the built design . . . or in plans, drawings, or in `any tangible medium of expression,' such as a blueprint or computer disk.”
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.