Amsterdam v. Triangle Publications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 104 · 1951
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably O. W. Donald v. Zack Meyer's T. v. Sales and Service, Moore Business Forms, Inc. (1970), United States v. Hamilton (1978)
17 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on General Drafting Co. v. Andrews · Christianson v. West Pub. Co. · Andrews v. Guenther Pub. Co. · Sawyer v. Crowell Pub. 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The presentation of ideas in the form of books, movies, music and other similar creative work is protected by the Copyright Act. However, the presentation of information available to everybody, such as is found on maps, is protected only when the publisher of the map in question obtains originally some of that information by the sweat of his own brow. Almost anybody could combine the information from several maps onto one map, but not everybody can go out and get that information originally and then transcribe it into a map. 19”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In all actions, suits, or proceedings under this title, except when brought by or against the United States or any officer thereof, full costs shall be allowed, and the court may award to the prevailing party a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To be copyrightable a map must be the result of some original work.”
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.